Pennygillam Industrial Estate
Inert
Pennygillam Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Launceston, Cornwall. It received inert waste until 1994, covering about 1.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD08075, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08075 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pennygillam Industrial Estate |
| Address | Pennygillam Industrial Estate, Bangors Quarry, Launceston |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Owned by North Cornwall District Council; |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 1.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 231800, 83400 |
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
- Bangor Slate QuarryCommercial
- Bangor QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Wit FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Dingley Downs QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.