South Coast Road
IndustrialHouseholdInert
South Coast Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Peacehaven, East Sussex. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1970 and 1974, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD20356, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20356 |
|---|---|
| Site name | South Coast Road |
| Address | Peacehaven, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 542700, 100600 |
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
- 13 or 15 Wellington RoadWaste types not recorded
- Playing FieldsInert
- Lewes RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Denton IslandHouseholdCommercial
- Southerham WharfWaste types not recorded
- Gold LaneIndustrialInert
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.