Land at The Ridings
Inert
Land at The Ridings is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1993, covering about 0.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD09178, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09178 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at The Ridings |
| Address | Wickwar Road, Chipping Sodbury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | The Chipping Sodbury |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 3 March 1988 |
| Last waste input | 17 March 1993 |
| Area | 0.85 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 372600, 182800 |
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.