Landfill Check

Shaw Farm

Inert

Shaw Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newbury, West Berkshire. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1990, covering about 0.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD13357, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD13357
Site nameShaw Farm
AddressDonnington, Berkshire
Site operatorJ S Fairhurst
Licence holderJ S Fairhurst Esquire
Licence issued3 February 1988
Licence surrendered31 May 1990
First waste input1 January 1988
Last waste input31 December 1990
Area0.71 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaWest TH
Grid reference447700, 168900

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.

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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.