Landfill Check

Mattishall

Inert

Mattishall is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Reepham, Norfolk. It received inert waste from 1968, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD03387, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03387
Site nameMattishall
AddressHockering, Norfolk
Site operatorThomson Brothers
Licence holderThomson Brothers
Licence issued28 June 1976
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1968
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.32 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaEastern AN
Grid reference606700, 312500

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.

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.