Layham Quarry Landfill
Inert
Layham Quarry Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hadleigh, Suffolk. It received inert waste between 2008 and 2025, covering about 16.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD36171, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36171 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Layham Quarry Landfill |
| Address | Rands Road,Layham,Hadleigh,Suffolk |
| Site operator | BRETT AGGREGATES LIMITED |
| Licence holder | BRETT AGGREGATES LIMITED |
| Licence issued | 21 December 2006 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 April 2025 |
| First waste input | 31 March 2008 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 16.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | AREA NOT SET |
| Grid reference | 601100, 239900 |
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.
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.