Portishead Power Station
SpecialIndustrialInert
Portishead Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Portishead, North Somerset. It received special (hazardous), industrial and inert waste between 1972 and 1989, covering about 2.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD09082, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09082 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Portishead Power Station |
| Address | Portishead, Bristol |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board South West Region |
| Licence issued | 17 October 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 2.44 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 348300, 177100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Central Electricity Generating BoardIndustrial
- Elm Tree FarmInert
- Future Development Area Royal Portbury DockIndustrialInert
- Priory FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Royal Portbury DockInert
- Land adjoining Royal Portbury DockSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.