Needham Road
Industrial
Needham Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stowmarket, Suffolk. It received industrial waste between 1948 and 1993, covering about 12.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD01956, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01956 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Needham Road |
| Address | Needham Road, Stowmarket |
| Site operator | Climax Molybdenum UK Limited |
| Licence holder | Climax Molybdenum UK Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 November 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Last waste input | 1 March 1993 |
| Area | 12.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 606100, 257900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Taker's LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Milton RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Newton RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- 42 Bury RoadCommercialInert
- Newton RoadInert
- Newton RoadIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.