Landfill Check

Land South of Field Common Lane

Inert

Land South of Field Common Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Esher, Surrey. It received inert waste between 1957 and 1991, covering about 64.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD11640, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11640
Site nameLand South of Field Common Lane
AddressField Common Lane, Walton on Thames, Surrey
Site operatorH Lavender and Sons, Sand and Gravel Merchants
Licence holderRedland Aggregates Limited
Licence issued13 July 1977
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1957
Last waste input21 February 1991
Area64.63 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth East TH
Grid reference512800, 166200

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.