Rusper Road
Inert
Rusper Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crawley, West Sussex. It received inert waste between 1975 and 1978, covering about 2.5 hectares. Reference EAHLD12638, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12638 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rusper Road |
| Address | Faygate, Horsham, West Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | H C Calvert |
| Licence issued | 18 May 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 November 1978 |
| First waste input | 31 July 1975 |
| Last waste input | 4 November 1978 |
| Area | 2.5 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 521900, 134400 |
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
- Faygate Landfill SiteSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Holmbush PotteriesIndustrialInert
- Land off Horsham RoadInert
- Buchan ParkIndustrialInert
- Dales TipIndustrialInert
- Cow WoodInert
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.