Scotland Copse
IndustrialCommercialInert
Scotland Copse is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hedge End, Hampshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste from 1977, covering about 0.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD20487, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20487 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Scotland Copse |
| Address | Mortimers Lane, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, Hampshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sunny Bank Tipping Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 11 February 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Hampshire and Isle of Wight SO |
| Grid reference | 450100, 118400 |
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
- Hardings Copse and Scotland CopseIndustrialCommercialInert
- Knowlehill LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Knowle LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sunny Bank Sand and Tipping LimitedIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Recreation GroundHousehold
- Crowd HillIndustrialInert
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.