Land Off Saltlands Avenue
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Land Off Saltlands Avenue is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bridgwater, Somerset. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste in 1994, covering about 2.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD09380, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09380 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Off Saltlands Avenue |
| Address | Bridgwater, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Beazer Homes (West) Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 June 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 December 1997 |
| First waste input | 29 June 1994 |
| Last waste input | 24 August 1994 |
| Area | 2.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 329800, 138200 |
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 at SaltlandsInert
- Saltlands Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at Bristol RoadIndustrialInert
- Flooded PitsInert
- Chilton Trinity former Clay PitsHouseholdInert
- Pit off The DroveInert
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.