Landfill Check

Navvy Pit

IndustrialInert

Navvy Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Redruth, Cornwall. It received industrial and inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 0.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD08002, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD08002
Site nameNavvy Pit
AddressNavvy Pit, Porthtowan, Truro
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderB Chenowet
Licence issued25 January 1989
Licence surrendered21 July 1994
First waste input1 March 1989
Last waste input17 September 1990
Area0.53 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCornwall SW
Grid reference170300, 47000

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.