Landfill Check

Land at Cherque Farm

HouseholdCommercialInert

Land at Cherque Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Fareham, Hampshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste from 1981, covering about 11.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD20788, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20788
Site nameLand at Cherque Farm
AddressLee on Solent, Gosport, Hampshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHall Aggregates (South Coast) Limited
Licence issued26 April 1984
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 June 1981
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area11.47 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaHampshire and Isle of Wight SO
Grid reference457000, 101000

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.
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

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.