Hollow Way Road
IndustrialCommercialInert
Hollow Way Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Beccles, Suffolk. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1991, covering about 3.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD02936, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD02936 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hollow Way Road |
| Address | Yarmouth Road, Gillingham, Beccles |
| Site operator | R T T Bramley |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 July 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 3.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 642600, 293100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hill House FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Beccles MarshesIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Beccles Corporation TipIndustrialCommercial
- Beccles MarshesWaste types not recorded
- Wood FarmInert
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.