Landfill Check

Lea Bridge Road Playing Fields

Inert

Lea Bridge Road Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near City of London, Greater London. It received inert waste between 1940 and 1960, covering about 10.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD11402, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD11402
Site nameLea Bridge Road Playing Fields
AddressLea Bridge Road
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1940
Last waste input31 December 1960
Area10.55 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference535600, 186900

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.

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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.