Landfill Check

Land at The Shallows

Inert

Land at The Shallows is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 0.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD09130, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD09130
Site nameLand at The Shallows
AddressSaltford, Avon
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderK E Gammon, Gammon Plant Hire
Licence issued9 March 1982
Licence surrendered15 December 1983
First waste input9 March 1982
Last waste input15 December 1983
Area0.69 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth Wessex SW
Grid reference368700, 167300

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.