Hinkley Point Power Station
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Hinkley Point Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. It received industrial and household waste between 1988 and 1994, covering about 4.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD08562, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08562 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hinkley Point Power Station |
| Address | Stogursey, Hinkley Point, Stogursey |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 12 September 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 February 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 October 1988 |
| Last waste input | 15 February 1994 |
| Area | 4.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 321500, 145700 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hinkley Point Landfill SiteSpecialInert
- Hinkley Point Power StationWaste types not recorded
- Hinkley Point Power StationHouseholdCommercialInert
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.