Landfill Check

Munnery's Copse

Inert

Munnery's Copse is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Worthing, West Sussex. It received inert waste in 1988, covering about 0.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD19940, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19940
Site nameMunnery's Copse
AddressDurrington, Sussex
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJ F Somerset
Licence issued21 September 1987
Licence surrendered18 December 1992
First waste input1 January 1988
Last waste input31 December 1988
Area0.21 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSussex SO
Grid reference511100, 106500

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.

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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.