Malling Playing Fields
Inert
Malling Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lewes, East Sussex. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1984, covering about 4.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD20205, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20205 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Malling Playing Fields |
| Address | Spences Lane, Lewes, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Lewes District Council |
| Licence issued | 21 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 21 July 1983 |
| Last waste input | 21 July 1984 |
| Area | 4.57 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 541600, 110700 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Malling Brooks A - Malling Industrial EstateHouseholdInert
- 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.