Landfill Check

Notley Chalk Pit West

Inert

Notley Chalk Pit West is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haverhill, Suffolk. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 0.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD01819, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01819
Site nameNotley Chalk Pit West
AddressNotley
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderA H Notley
Licence issued8 August 1989
Licence surrendered12 June 1993
First waste input31 December 1989
Last waste input31 December 1991
Area0.53 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference560100, 249200

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.

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.