Oak Farm
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Oak Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hatfield, Hertfordshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1935 and 1977, covering about 6.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD12895, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12895 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Oak Farm |
| Address | Oaklands Lane, St. Albans, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | St Albans Sand and Gravel Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 September 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 July 1977 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1935 |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1977 |
| Area | 6.79 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 518900, 208300 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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- Pollards Playing FieldsWaste types not recorded
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.