Landfill Check

Hams Hall Power Station

SpecialIndustrial

Hams Hall Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Coleshill, Warwickshire. It received special (hazardous) and industrial waste between 1987 and 1991, covering about 1.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD23537, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23537
Site nameHams Hall Power Station
AddressHams Hall, Lea Marston, Warwickshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCentral Electricity Generation Board
Licence issued17 December 1987
Licence surrendered19 March 1993
First waste input31 December 1987
Last waste input31 December 1991
Area1.8 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference419700, 291600

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Special:
the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.