Riverside Farm
Inert
Riverside Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radlett, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1989, covering about 34.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD13037, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13037 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Riverside Farm |
| Address | Drop Farm, Bricket Wood, St. Albans, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | St Albans Sand and Gravel Company Limited |
| Licence holder | St Albans Sand and Gravel Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 December 1989 |
| First waste input | 27 June 1979 |
| Last waste input | 6 December 1989 |
| Area | 34.52 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 514800, 201400 |
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
- Smug Oak LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Smug Oak LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Mill MoorInert
- Smug Oak LaneWaste types not recorded
- Hill FarmInert
- Harper Lane QuarryInert
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.