Old Watercress Beds
Inert
Old Watercress Beds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 1.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD12256, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12256 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Watercress Beds |
| Address | Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Spring Lodge (Mr F Pallett) |
| Licence issued | 11 February 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 October 1983 |
| First waste input | 11 February 1981 |
| Last waste input | 24 October 1983 |
| Area | 1.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 537600, 208300 |
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.
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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.