Malling Brooks A - Malling Industrial Estate
HouseholdInert
Malling Brooks A - Malling Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lewes, East Sussex. It received household and inert waste from 1970, covering about 14.37 hectares. Reference EAHLD20202, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20202 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Malling Brooks A - Malling Industrial Estate |
| Address | Land South of Spences Lane, Malling Brooks, Lewes, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J C Gosling |
| Licence issued | 13 October 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 14.37 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 541700, 110700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Malling Playing FieldsInert
- Spences Lane - Malling BrooksHouseholdInert
- Malling Brooks Recreations groundWaste types not recorded
- Landport Recreation GroundIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Junction of Offham Road - The AvenueHouseholdCommercialInert
- Between Paddock Lane and New RoadWaste 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.