Land Adjacent to Vobster Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Land Adjacent to Vobster Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radstock, Bath and North East Somerset. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1981 and 1988, covering about 0.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD08473, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08473 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to Vobster Quarry |
| Address | Upper Vobster, Radstock, Avon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mell Land Reclamation |
| Licence issued | 15 November 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 March 1981 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1988 |
| Area | 0.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 370500, 149500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Vobster Quarry Phase 2IndustrialInert
- Vobster QuarryIndustrialInert
- Vobster HillIndustrialInert
- Page House Farm Landfill SiteInert
- Adjacent Holwell FarmIndustrialInert
- Page House Farm BIndustrialInert
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.