Landfill Check

Off Sally Wood's Lane

Liquid / sludge

Off Sally Wood's Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Needham Market, Suffolk. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1961 and 1992, covering about 1.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD01953, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01953
Site nameOff Sally Wood's Lane
AddressCreeting St Mary
Site operatorICI Paints Division
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued19 March 1987
Licence surrendered7 February 1992
First waste input31 December 1961
Last waste input6 February 1992
Area1.61 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaEastern AN
Grid reference609800, 255400

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.

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.