Landfill Check

Landguard Caravan Park

Inert

Landguard Caravan Park is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shanklin, Isle of Wight. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1986, covering about 0.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD20871, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20871
Site nameLandguard Caravan Park
AddressWhitecross Lane, Landguard, Shanklin, Isle of Wight
Site operatorLandguard Caravan Park Limited
Licence holderD L Modsell Limited
Licence issued2 March 1979
Licence surrendered31 December 1984
First waste input1 January 1979
Last waste input1 January 1986
Area0.28 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaHampshire and Isle of Wight SO
Grid reference458000, 82600

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.