Landfill Check

Holmes Avenue

Inert

Holmes Avenue is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brighton and Hove, The City of Brighton and Hove. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1994, covering about 0.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD20176, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20176
Site nameHolmes Avenue
AddressHove, Sussex
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued24 January 1984
Licence surrendered30 April 1994
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.82 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSussex SO
Grid reference527700, 105800

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

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.