Fornham Bypass Construction
Inert
Fornham Bypass Construction is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. It received inert waste until 1991, covering about 3.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD01429, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01429 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fornham Bypass Construction |
| Address | Off Compiegne Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk |
| Site operator | C A Blackwell |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 3.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 586500, 266100 |
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
- Bury Sugar Beet FactoryIndustrial
- British Sugar - Bury St Edmunds Sugar FactoryIndustrial
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Mount RoadWaste types not recorded
- Tayfen MeadowInert
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.