Reeds Lane
Liquid / sludge
Reeds Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Horsham, West Sussex. It received liquid/sludge waste from 1940, covering about 6.81 hectares. Reference EAHLD32436, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32436 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Reeds Lane |
| Address | Southwater, West Sussex |
| Site operator | Horsham Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 6.81 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 516300, 126700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Easteds FarmInert
- Reeds LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Disused Railway CuttingIndustrialInert
- Gill House FarmInert
- Hard's FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hop Oast RoundaboutInert
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.