Symons Tree Area Dartington
IndustrialInert
Symons Tree Area Dartington is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Totnes, Devon. It received industrial and inert waste between 1980 and 2003, covering about 0.81 hectares. Reference EAHLD08705, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08705 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Symons Tree Area Dartington |
| Address | Dartington, Totnes, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Dartington Hall Trust Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 March 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 September 2003 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1980 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.81 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 279000, 62600 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Dartington Hall, TweedsWaste types not recorded
- Staverton Bridge MillIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Little Hempston ReservoirInert
- Hood QuarryIndustrialInert
- Staverton TipWaste types not recorded
- MockwoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.