Glynleigh Landfill Site
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Glynleigh Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hailsham, East Sussex. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1980 and 1988, covering about 2.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD20248, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20248 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Glynleigh Landfill Site |
| Address | Wealdon, Sussex |
| Site operator | East Sussex County Council |
| Licence holder | East Sussex County Council |
| Licence issued | 2 November 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 6 January 1980 |
| Last waste input | 15 April 1988 |
| Area | 2.95 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 560700, 106300 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Priesthawes Farm, HankhamInert
- Westdown Saltmarsh LaneWaste types not recorded
- Ditton Farm LFSInert
- Horse Eye LevelWaste types not recorded
- Coldthorn LaneWaste 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.