Sandy Cross
HouseholdCommercialInert
Sandy Cross is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Aldershot, Hampshire. It received household, commercial and inert waste from 1946, covering about 1.99 hectares. Reference EAHLD11766, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11766 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sandy Cross |
| Address | Seale Lane, Seale |
| Site operator | Guildford Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | A and J Bull Southern Limited |
| Licence issued | 29 April 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1946 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.99 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 488900, 147700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Seale Lane SandpitSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Homefield Sandpit. (J. H. Bentley)Inert
- Tongham NurseriesInert
- United Carriers SiteWaste types not recorded
- Ash Road Industrial EstateWaste types not recorded
- Shalden RoadWaste types not recorded
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.