Holton Pit
Inert
Holton Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halesworth, Suffolk. It received inert waste between 1977 and 2005, covering about 25.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD03274, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03274 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Holton Pit |
| Address | Holton, Halesworth, Suffolk |
| Site operator | Atlas Aggregates Limited |
| Licence holder | Atlas Aggregates Limited |
| Licence issued | 6 October 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 October 2005 |
| First waste input | 20 October 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 25.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 640500, 277500 |
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.
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.