Landfill Check

School Yard

Inert

School Yard is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Midhurst, West Sussex. It received inert waste in 1979, covering about 0.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD20062, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20062
Site nameSchool Yard
AddressMidhurst, Sussex
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderS C H Builders Merchants Limited
Licence issued12 January 1979
Licence surrendered14 April 1982
First waste input31 December 1979
Last waste input31 December 1979
Area0.4 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSussex SO
Grid reference487700, 121100

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

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.