Goldenhaye Lane
Inert
Goldenhaye Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilminster, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1994 and 2009, covering about 2.81 hectares. Reference EAHLD35669, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35669 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Goldenhaye Lane |
| Address | Goldenhaye Lane, Chard, Chaffcombe, Somerset |
| Site operator | Goldenhaye Lane |
| Licence holder | Goldenhaye Lane |
| Licence issued | 3 March 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 2009 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.81 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon |
| Grid reference | 336300, 108500 |
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
- Elder CopseWaste types not recorded
- Lime Kiln LaneInert
- Limekiln LaneWaste types not recorded
- Colham LaneWaste types not recorded
- Windwhistle and CudworthIndustrialInert
- Chaffcombe RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.