Sandpit
IndustrialCommercialInert
Sandpit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kesgrave, Suffolk. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1948 and 1991, covering about 3.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD03047, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03047 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sandpit |
| Address | Tuddenham St Martin, Suffolk |
| Site operator | J H Weavers Limited |
| Licence holder | Giltex Estates |
| Licence issued | 11 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 October 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 3.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 619300, 249100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Culpho HallWaste types not recorded
- Church LaneCommercialInert
- Church LaneInert
- Tuddenham RoadWaste types not recorded
- New Building CottagesCommercialInert
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.