Holes Bay South
Inert
Holes Bay South is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1984, covering about 19.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD08881, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08881 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Holes Bay South |
| Address | Poole, Dorset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Poole Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 21 May 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 September 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 19.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 400700, 91900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Mudlands To Rear Of Dorset Welding Company LimitedIndustrialInert
- Mudlands To Rear Of Crestworth LimitedIndustrialInert
- Mudlands At Rear Of HardchromeIndustrialInert
- Rear of W.L. Miller and Son LimitedIndustrialInert
- Holes Bay NorthHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rear of St. Christopher Hill LimitedInert
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.