Island Road
Inert
Island Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Reading, Reading. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1985, covering about 14.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD13767, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13767 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Island Road |
| Address | Reading, Berkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr J Bucknell |
| Licence issued | 10 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 December 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 14.24 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 470900, 170900 |
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
- Island Road TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Smallmead StadiumInert
- Sludge BedsWaste types not recorded
- Gilette WarehouseLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Manor FarmInert
- Rose Kiln Lane SouthLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
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.