Lafarge, Paynes Lane
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Lafarge, Paynes Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1933 and 1973, covering about 19.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD35750, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35750 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lafarge, Paynes Lane |
| Address | Paynes Lane, Nazeing, Essex |
| Site operator | Lafarge, Paynes Lane |
| Licence holder | Lafarge, Paynes Lane |
| Licence issued | 24 June 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 August 2010 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1933 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Area | 19.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East |
| Grid reference | 538200, 205075 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Landridge FarmInert
- Lafarge, NazeingWaste types not recorded
- Paynes LaneHouseholdCommercialInert
- Paynes LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Langridge Farm NorthInert
- Langridge FarmCommercialInert
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.