Landfill Check

South Saxon Playing Fields

HouseholdInert

South Saxon Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hastings, East Sussex. It received household and inert waste between 1973 and 1989, covering about 7.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD20395, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD20395
Site nameSouth Saxon Playing Fields
AddressHastings, Sussex
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHastings Borough Council
Licence issued31 December 1978
Licence surrendered31 May 1991
First waste input31 December 1973
Last waste input31 December 1989
Area7.32 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSussex SO
Grid reference578300, 109000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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

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.