Oldbury-On-Severn Power Station
Inert
Oldbury-On-Severn Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1993, covering about 23.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD09801, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09801 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Oldbury-On-Severn Power Station |
| Address | Thornbury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Nuclear Electric Plc |
| Licence issued | 21 August 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 March 1993 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 23.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 360500, 193900 |
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
- Oldbury Power Station EPR/JP3339SFWaste types not recorded
- Oldbury-On-Severn Power StationInert
- Oldbury-On-Severn Power StationSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.