Tayfen Meadow
Inert
Tayfen Meadow is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1993, covering about 2.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD01435, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01435 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tayfen Meadow |
| Address | Off Tayfen Road, Bury St. Edmunds |
| Site operator | Rooke and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 25 March 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1993 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 2.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 584700, 265100 |
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
- Wollaston CloseWaste types not recorded
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Fornham Bypass ConstructionInert
- British Sugar - Bury St Edmunds Sugar FactoryIndustrial
- Bury Sugar Beet FactoryIndustrial
- The ButtsWaste 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.