Future Development Area Royal Portbury Dock
IndustrialInert
Future Development Area Royal Portbury Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Portishead, North Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1987, covering about 11.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD09131, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09131 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Future Development Area Royal Portbury Dock |
| Address | Bristol |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Port of Bristol Authority |
| Licence issued | 11 May 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 11 May 1982 |
| Last waste input | 9 March 1987 |
| Area | 11.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 349900, 176300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Royal Portbury DockInert
- Elm Tree FarmInert
- Priory FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land adjoining Royal Portbury DockSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Portishead Power StationSpecialIndustrialInert
- Central Electricity Generating BoardIndustrial
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.