Hatchpond
IndustrialInert
Hatchpond is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ferndown, Dorset. It received industrial and inert waste in 1989, covering about 14.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD08955, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08955 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hatchpond |
| Address | Poole |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Drinkwater Sabey Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 October 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 January 1993 |
| First waste input | 9 February 1989 |
| Last waste input | 15 November 1989 |
| Area | 14.34 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 406300, 96900 |
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
- HatchpondIndustrialInert
- Kinson Common, Opposite Ilyde RoadWaste types not recorded
- Manor FarmWaste types not recorded
- Poole LaneWaste types not recorded
- Manor FarmWaste types not recorded
- Kinghten Heat old refuse tipWaste 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.