Grove Farm
IndustrialInert
Grove Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bushey, Hertfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 1989, covering about 29.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD13087, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13087 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Grove Farm |
| Address | Bushey, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bromley Haulage |
| Licence issued | 13 October 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1980 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1989 |
| Area | 29.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 516200, 194600 |
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 National Orthopaedic HospitalInert
- Caldecote FarmInert
- Brockley Hill Farm, StanmoreWaste types not recorded
- Edwarebury House FarmWaste types not recorded
- Sparrows Herne HallInert
- Brent ContainersWaste 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.