Friern Barnet Sewage works
Inert
Friern Barnet Sewage works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1940 and 1980, covering about 9.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD11390, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11390 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Friern Barnet Sewage works |
| Address | Pinkham Way, Bounds Green, Friern Barnet |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | London Borough of Barnet |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 9.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 528800, 191500 |
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
- Friern HospitalInert
- Coppetts RoadInert
- Coppetts CentreHouseholdCommercial
- Coppetts CloseWaste types not recorded
- Great Northern CemeteryWaste types not recorded
- Southgate Town HallWaste types not recorded
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.