Hook Tip
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Hook Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hedge End, Hampshire. It received liquid/sludge, industrial, household and commercial waste between 1969 and 1979, covering about 25.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD20603, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20603 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hook Tip |
| Address | Hook Lane, Locks Heath, Fareham, Hampshire |
| Site operator | Fareham Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Hampshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 19 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 December 1982 |
| First waste input | 31 August 1969 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1979 |
| Area | 25.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 451000, 105700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hook Gravel PitInert
- Green Lane, Phase B C and DWaste types not recorded
- Land Adjacent to Dibles BottomHousehold
- Land Adjacent to Primates WayHousehold
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.