Sproughton Road
Industrial
Sproughton Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ipswich, Suffolk. It received industrial waste between 1987 and 2006, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD01976, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01976 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sproughton Road |
| Address | Sproughton Road, Ipswich |
| Site operator | British Sugar Corporation Limited |
| Licence holder | British Sugar Plc |
| Licence issued | 6 October 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 February 2006 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Eastern AN |
| Grid reference | 613500, 244600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sugar FactoryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hadleigh Road SproughtonWaste types not recorded
- Ipswich Sugar FactoryIndustrial
- Rob RoyWaste types not recorded
- Harris (Ipwich) LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Sproughton Road-Bramford 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.