Lewes Road
HouseholdCommercialInert
Lewes Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newhaven, East Sussex. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1963 and 1981, covering about 15.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD20200, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20200 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lewes Road |
| Address | Opposite Cemetery junction with Buckle Rise, Newhaven, Lewes, Sussex |
| Site operator | Newhaven Urban District Council/Lewes District Council/East Sussex County Council |
| Licence holder | East Sussex Countil Council |
| Licence issued | 1 April 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1963 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1981 |
| Area | 15.41 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 544100, 102000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Denton IslandHouseholdCommercial
- Southerham WharfWaste types not recorded
- Avis Road, NewhavenInert
- Glynde EstatesWaste types not recorded
- Beach RoadIndustrialInert
- South Coast RoadIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.