Spences Lane - Malling Brooks
HouseholdInert
Spences Lane - Malling Brooks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lewes, East Sussex. It received household and inert waste between 1962 and 1973, covering about 3.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD20203, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20203 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Spences Lane - Malling Brooks |
| Address | Lewes, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J Light |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1962 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Area | 3.19 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 541800, 110800 |
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
- Malling Playing FieldsInert
- Malling Brooks A - Malling Industrial EstateHouseholdInert
- Malling Brooks Recreations groundWaste types not recorded
- Landport Recreation GroundIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Malling Hill Depot - Newpit DepotWaste types not recorded
- Junction of Offham Road - The AvenueHouseholdCommercialInert
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.