Southard Farm
Inert
Southard Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swanage, Dorset. It received inert waste in 1994, covering about 0.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD09774, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09774 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Southard Farm |
| Address | Swanage, Dorset |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W T Haysom |
| Licence issued | 22 March 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 29 April 1994 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.24 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 402500, 77700 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Suttles Quarry ( Swanage )IndustrialInert
- Swanage Refuse TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.