Landfill Site at Naas Lane/Waterwells Farm
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Landfill Site at Naas Lane/Waterwells Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gloucester, Gloucestershire. It received liquid/sludge, industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1965 and 1990, covering about 15.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD27769, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27769 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Landfill Site at Naas Lane/Waterwells Farm |
| Address | Waterwells Farm, Naas Lane, Quedgeley, Gloucester, Gloucestershire |
| Site operator | Hales Containers Limited |
| Licence holder | Hales Containers Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 15.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 381400, 212900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Naas LaneIndustrialInert
- RAF QuedgeleyHouseholdCommercial
- QuedgeleyWaste types not recorded
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.