Landfill Check

Parsons Drove Landfill

Waste types not recorded

Parsons Drove Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Ives, Cambridgeshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1989 and 2011, covering about 23.15 hectares. Reference EAHLD35778, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35778
Site nameParsons Drove Landfill
AddressParsons Drove, St Ives, Cambridgeshire
Site operatorParsons Drove Landfill
Licence holderParsons Drove Landfill
Licence issued1 June 1989
Licence surrendered22 February 2011
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area23.15 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral
Grid reference533000, 271700

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

Boundary map

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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.