Sussex Pad
Inert
Sussex Pad is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 0.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD19964, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19964 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sussex Pad |
| Address | Lancing, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W J Pack |
| Licence issued | 10 June 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 June 1986 |
| First waste input | 10 June 1985 |
| Last waste input | 9 June 1986 |
| Area | 0.77 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 519900, 106000 |
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
- Adur RecreationIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ropetackle RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Brighton 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.