Tall Pears Farm
Inert
Tall Pears Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cuckfield, West Sussex. It received inert waste in 1983, covering about 1.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD19966, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19966 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tall Pears Farm |
| Address | Deaks Lane, Ansty, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | T J and J V Pearson |
| Licence issued | 15 April 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1984 |
| First waste input | 10 June 1983 |
| Last waste input | 18 August 1983 |
| Area | 1.59 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 528800, 124700 |
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
- Old Beech FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
- Weald ChaseWaste types not recorded
- Slough PlaceInert
- Upper Sparks FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cuckfield Glebe RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
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.