Lower Sweetcombe Farm
IndustrialInert
Lower Sweetcombe Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sidmouth, Devon. It received industrial and inert waste from 1994, covering about 0.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD08828, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08828 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lower Sweetcombe Farm |
| Address | Lower Sweetcombe Farm, Hatway Hill, Sidbury, Sidmouth, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Philip Lavers and Barry Perry |
| Licence issued | 24 June 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1994 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.44 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 314500, 91700 |
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.
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.