Landfill Check

Haddiscoe

IndustrialHouseholdInert

Haddiscoe is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Beccles, Suffolk. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1987 and 1991, covering about 1.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD02946, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02946
Site nameHaddiscoe
AddressCrab Apple Lane, Haddiscoe, Great Yarmouth
Site operatorE E Green and Son Limited
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued1 January 1974
Licence surrendered1 August 1991
First waste input21 September 1987
Last waste input31 December 1991
Area1.31 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaEastern AN
Grid reference643500, 297300

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.