Gatwick Brickworks
Inert
Gatwick Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horley, Surrey. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1984, covering about 2.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD11649, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11649 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gatwick Brickworks |
| Address | Reigate Road, Hookwood |
| Site operator | FAO Mr B Sauncers Hoover Trust Fund Limited |
| Licence holder | Dorking and Horley Rural District Council |
| Licence issued | 8 November 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 November 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 2.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 527000, 142600 |
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
- Westlands FarmWaste types not recorded
- Lee Street Sewage Works Thames Water AuthorityInert
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.