Landfill Check

Former Air field

Waste types not recorded

Former Air field is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Diss, Norfolk. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1970, covering about 1.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD31144, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD31144
Site nameFormer Air field
AddressFersfield Drive, Norfolk
Site operatorDepwade Rural District Council
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input30 September 1970
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.12 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference607900, 284600

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What this data does — and doesn't — cover

  • Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
  • Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
  • Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
  • Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.

EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.