Land Adjacent to Licenced Area
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land Adjacent to Licenced Area is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sandown, Isle of Wight. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1940 and 1980, covering about 5.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD20898, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20898 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to Licenced Area |
| Address | Sandown WTW, East Yar Road, Sandown, Isle of Wight |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | South Wight Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 January 1985 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1940 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1980 |
| Area | 5.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 460400, 85100 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Waste Storage At Sandown Waste Water Treatment WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Jeals PitInert
- Land At DownsviewWaste types not recorded
- Perowne WayIndustrialInert
- Yar BridgeIndustrialInert
- Yaverland Old TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.