Kennett Landfill Site
Household
Kennett Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mildenhall, Suffolk. It received household waste between 1969 and 1980, covering about 1.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD01059, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01059 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Kennett Landfill Site |
| Address | Suffolk County - Kennett |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | E L Williams Esquire - County Surveyor, Suffolk County Council |
| Licence issued | 2 January 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 June 1982 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | 12 September 1980 |
| Area | 1.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 569400, 268600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Kennett Landfill SiteHouseholdCommercial
- 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.