Stonehouse Playing Fields
Inert
Stonehouse Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Plymouth, City of Plymouth. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1991, covering about 8.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD08672, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08672 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stonehouse Playing Fields |
| Address | Stonehouse Playing Fields, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Plymouth City Council |
| Licence issued | 19 December 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 19 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 27 February 1991 |
| Area | 8.1 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 246200, 54600 |
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
- Stonehouse LakeWaste types not recorded
- Victoria ParkWaste types not recorded
- Hazardous Stores Return CentreWaste types not recorded
- Stoke School Playing Field And AllotmentsWaste types not recorded
- Recreation Ground St Levan Ground And Alexandra RoadWaste types not recorded
- Central Park MilehouseWaste 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.