Plant Site
Inert
Plant Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newbury, West Berkshire. It received inert waste in 1994, covering about 3.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD13293, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13293 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Plant Site |
| Address | Welford, Berkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wimpey Hobbs Limited |
| Licence issued | 24 February 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 February 1995 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1994 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 3.66 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 441400, 171800 |
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
- Welford Gravel PitWaste types not recorded
- Brick and Tile WorksIndustrialInert
- High Street FarmIndustrialInert
- Brick and Tile WorksIndustrialInert
- Brick and Tile WorksInert
- Wormstall PitIndustrialInert
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.