Sinks Pit
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Sinks Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kesgrave, Suffolk. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1955 and 1987, covering about 12.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD03039, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03039 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sinks Pit |
| Address | Kesgrave |
| Site operator | Hall Aggregates Eastern Counties Limited |
| Licence holder | Hall Aggregates |
| Licence issued | 28 September 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 September 1987 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1955 |
| Last waste input | 28 September 1987 |
| Area | 12.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 622700, 246400 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sinks PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Hall's PitIndustrialCommercialInert
- The Playing Field, Hall RoadInert
- Bloomfield's FarmInert
- New Building CottagesCommercialInert
- Woodbridge Road - Holly 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.