Leeford Plantation
Inert
Leeford Plantation is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Budleigh Salterton, Devon. It received inert waste from 1990, covering about 0.72 hectares. Reference EAHLD08843, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08843 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Leeford Plantation |
| Address | Knowle Hill, East Budleigh Salterton, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Area Engineer, Exeter City Council |
| Licence issued | 15 October 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1990 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.72 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 304300, 82800 |
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
- Withycombe RaleighWaste types not recorded
- Tidwell BartonInert
- Salterton RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.