King George V Playing Field
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King George V Playing Field is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth. It received industrial and household waste from 1986, covering about 15.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD20815, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20815 |
|---|---|
| Site name | King George V Playing Field |
| Address | North Harbour, Portsmouth |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Arlington Securities Limited |
| Licence issued | 30 July 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 15.73 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 465300, 104900 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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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.