North Side Of A303 At Percombe Hill
Inert
North Side Of A303 At Percombe Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Petherton, Somerset. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 2.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD08572, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08572 |
|---|---|
| Site name | North Side Of A303 At Percombe Hill |
| Address | Percombe Hill. Martock |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wimpey Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 26 June 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 2.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 346400, 117700 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Southside Of A303 At Ringwell HillInert
- A303 Shores HillInert
- Martock Old Sewage Treatment WorksSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Bearley Bridge SouthIndustrialHouseholdInert
- HurstWaste types not recorded
- Bearley Bridge NorthInert
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.