Landfill Check

Runcton Holme

Waste types not recorded

Runcton Holme is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Downham Market, Norfolk. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1964, covering about 0.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD00713, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD00713
Site nameRuncton Holme
AddressRuncton Holme, Norfolk
Site operatorWest Norfolk Fertilizers Limited
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input25 March 1964
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.8 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference561500, 308000

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

Boundary map

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.