Landfill Check

Long Meadow Farm

Inert

Long Meadow Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Houghton Regis, Central Bedfordshire. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 0.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD01110, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01110
Site nameLong Meadow Farm
AddressChalton Cross, Chalton
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderFrederick Richard Searle
Licence issued3 April 1985
Licence surrendered10 April 1986
First waste input3 April 1985
Last waste input10 April 1986
Area0.39 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference503800, 226100

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.