Landfill Check

Rookery Farm

CommercialInert

Rookery Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Diss, Norfolk. It received commercial and inert waste between 1991 and 1994, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD01935, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01935
Site nameRookery Farm
AddressRookery Farm, Wortham
Site operatorH G Thurston and Company Limited
Licence holderH G Thurston and Company Limited
Licence issued28 June 1991
Licence surrendered30 April 1994
First waste input28 June 1991
Last waste input31 December 1994
Area0.42 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaEastern AN
Grid reference610400, 277900

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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.

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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.