Landfill Check

Land at Rossgarth

Inert

Land at Rossgarth is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wickham, Hampshire. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1995, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD20420, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20420
Site nameLand at Rossgarth
AddressWinchester Road, Shedfield, Hampshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr W J Symes
Licence issued22 April 1988
Licence surrendered14 March 1995
First waste input22 April 1988
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.33 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaHampshire and Isle of Wight SO
Grid reference456100, 114100

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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.