Homewood Sandpit
IndustrialInert
Homewood Sandpit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Woking, Surrey. It received industrial and inert waste between 1970 and 1974, covering about 5.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD11558, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11558 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Homewood Sandpit |
| Address | Hydelands and Homewood Farms, Polesden Lane, Send, Surrey |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Hall Aggregates |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1974 |
| Area | 5.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 504200, 156100 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Papercourt Plant SiteWaste types not recorded
- Papercourt IIISpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Papercourt Pit 1SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Papercourt Farm No.4SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Dunsborough FarmInert
- Send Barns FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
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.