Landfill Check

Former Sand Pit

Inert

Former Sand Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Romsey, Hampshire. It received inert waste from 1991, covering about 5 hectares. Reference EAHLD09240, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09240
Site nameFormer Sand Pit
AddressRedland Old Tile Works, Romsey
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMcNicholas Construction Company Limited
Licence issued15 July 1991
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area5 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaHampshire and Isle of Wight SO
Grid reference435100, 125200

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.