Priory Farm Cottages
Inert
Priory Farm Cottages is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lowestoft, Suffolk. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 0.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD01917, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01917 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Priory Farm Cottages |
| Address | Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, Suffolk |
| Site operator | C R Hales |
| Licence holder | P W D Watson |
| Licence issued | 17 September 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 October 1985 |
| First waste input | 17 September 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 650200, 289500 |
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
- Carlton Hall FarmCommercialInert
- Woodbarn FarmCommercialInert
- Grove RoadWaste types not recorded
- White House FarmWaste types not recorded
- Poplar RoadWaste types not recorded
- White House FarmWaste types not recorded
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.