Landfill Check

Sunny Bank

HouseholdCommercial

Sunny Bank is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leominster, County of Herefordshire. It received household and commercial waste between 1980 and 1986, covering about 2.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD35347, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35347
Site nameSunny Bank
AddressStoke Prior, Leominster, Herefordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHereford and Worcester County Council
Licence issued31 December 1980
Licence surrendered30 April 1994
First waste input31 December 1980
Last waste input31 December 1986
Area2.54 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth East CY
Grid reference353200, 256600

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.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.

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.