Little Chef
CommercialInert
Little Chef is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Austell, Cornwall. It received commercial and inert waste between 1965 and 1975, covering about 2.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD08158, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08158 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Little Chef |
| Address | Little Chef - Hughes Garage, Southbourne Road |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wally and David Hughes |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1965 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Area | 2.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 202300, 51800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Sawles Road, St AustellIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tregorrick QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sewage Treatment WorksHouseholdCommercial
- Polmarth CloseHousehold
- Trewiddle QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Nettles CornerWaste types not recorded
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.