Landfill Check

Side Hilly

Inert

Side Hilly is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1964 and 1975, covering about 2.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD12901, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD12901
Site nameSide Hilly
AddressLittle Hadham, Ware, Hertfordshire
Site operatorTrundles Limited
Licence holderTrundles Limited
Licence issued16 May 1977
Licence surrendered29 April 1994
First waste input11 December 1964
Last waste input31 December 1975
Area2.34 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference543400, 221300

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.