Rushy Platt
Inert
Rushy Platt is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swindon, Swindon. It received inert waste in 1960, covering about 6.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD13475, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD13475 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rushy Platt |
| Address | Swindon |
| Site operator | Hills Aggregates |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1960 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Area | 6.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | West TH |
| Grid reference | 413500, 183700 |
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
- British Rail EngineeringSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- 53 Westlecot RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land At Great Weston WayHousehold
- Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
- HillsCommercial
- Wroughton BrickworksSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.