Molesey Road Landfill Phase I
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Molesey Road Landfill Phase I is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Esher, Surrey. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1949 and 1994, covering about 31.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD11644, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11644 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Molesey Road Landfill Phase I |
| Address | Molesey Road, Hersham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Greenham Construction Materials Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1949 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 31.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 513800, 166200 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Molesey Road Phase 2IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land South of Field Common LaneInert
- Field Common Lane - Mosley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Molesey Heath Landscape ProjectLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- West Molesey Sewage WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Field Common Lane NorthIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.