Robin Hill Pit
HouseholdCommercialInert
Robin Hill Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newport, Isle of Wight. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1994, covering about 2.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD20909, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20909 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Robin Hill Pit |
| Address | Robin Hill Country Park, Downend, Arreton, Newport, Isle of Wight |
| Site operator | J V Willis Flemming |
| Licence holder | Downend Enterprises |
| Licence issued | 12 July 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1982 |
| Last waste input | 27 April 1994 |
| Area | 2.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 453400, 87800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lynn TipCommercial
- Lynn Plantation Gravel PitWaste types not recorded
- Lynn BottomIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Long Lane PlantationInert
- Staplers FarmInert
- Duxmore Chalk Quarry Landfill SiteWaste 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.