Land Near Ham Gardens
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Land Near Ham Gardens is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Midsomer Norton, Bath and North East Somerset. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 1.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD09576, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09576 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Near Ham Gardens |
| Address | Rackvernal Road, Midsomer Norton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wessex Water Authority |
| Licence issued | 15 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 January 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1979 |
| Area | 1.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 367100, 154400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land South of Long BarnabyInert
- Waterside TipIndustrialCommercial
- Land Sout East of Old MillsInert
- Tunnel LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.