Long Sutton Waste Disposal Site
IndustrialInert
Long Sutton Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Somerton, Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste between 1991 and 2001, covering about 2.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD08595, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08595 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Long Sutton Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Long Sutton, Somerton, Somerset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Oswall Plant Services |
| Licence issued | 27 April 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 March 2001 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1991 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 348600, 125800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Highbrooks QuarriesInert
- Highbrooks QuarryInert
- Badgers CrossLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Badgers CrossLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Highbrooks RoadWaste types not recorded
- MelburyWaste 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.