Royal Portbury Dock
Inert
Royal Portbury Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Portishead, North Somerset. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1969, covering about 2.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD09849, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09849 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Royal Portbury Dock |
| Address | Proposed Development Area Adjacent to Dock Road, Bristol, Avon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 11 May 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1969 |
| Area | 2.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 350300, 176200 |
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
- Future Development Area Royal Portbury DockIndustrialInert
- Elm Tree FarmInert
- Priory FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land adjoining Royal Portbury DockSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Avonmouth Dock Entrance ChannelInert
- Portishead Power StationSpecialIndustrialInert
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.