Kennett Landfill Site
HouseholdCommercial
Kennett Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mildenhall, Suffolk. It received household and commercial waste between 1969 and 1980, covering about 9.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD01058, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01058 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Kennett Landfill Site |
| Address | Suffolk County - Kennett |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Suffolk County Council |
| Licence issued | 2 January 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 June 1982 |
| First waste input | 24 February 1969 |
| Last waste input | 12 September 1980 |
| Area | 9.68 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 569000, 268700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Kennett Landfill SiteHousehold
- Red Lodge - DickersonsWaste types not recorded
- The CarropsIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- The CarropsIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Off Green LaneInert
- Red LodgeHouseholdCommercial
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.