Saltmarsh Drive
HouseholdCommercial
Saltmarsh Drive is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bristol, City of Bristol. It received household and commercial waste between 1950 and 1974, covering about 24.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD32257, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32257 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Saltmarsh Drive |
| Address | Lawrence Weston, Bristol, Avon |
| Site operator | Bristol Corporation |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Area | 24.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 353900, 178400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- KingswestonInert
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- Kingsweston LaneWaste types not recorded
- Commonwealth Smelting LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Britannia Zinc Factory TipIndustrial
- No.4 AHF LagoonIndustrial
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.