Landfill Check

Thames Valley Park

Special

Thames Valley Park is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Woodley, Wokingham. It received special (hazardous) waste until 1989, covering about 1.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD13273, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD13273
Site nameThames Valley Park
AddressReading, Berkshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderThames Valley Park Limited
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input30 June 1989
Area1.45 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaWest TH
Grid reference474400, 174200

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Special:
the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.