Landfill Check

Land at Churchill Green

IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Land at Churchill Green is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Axbridge, Somerset. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1984, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD09138, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09138
Site nameLand at Churchill Green
AddressChurchill, Near Bristol
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderPSS Plant Services and Sales
Licence issued14 December 1982
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1982
Last waste input31 December 1984
Area0.2 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference343000, 159900

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.

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.