Priesthawes Farm, Hankham
Inert
Priesthawes Farm, Hankham is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Polegate, East Sussex. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1990, covering about 1.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD20273, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20273 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Priesthawes Farm, Hankham |
| Address | Hove, Sussex |
| Site operator | Holloway Transport and S M Tidy Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 1.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 560600, 105200 |
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
- Ditton Farm LFSInert
- Glynleigh Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Shinewater LaneInert
- Westdown Saltmarsh LaneWaste types not recorded
- Five Oaks - Nightingale FarmInert
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.