The Brooks
Inert
The Brooks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lewes, East Sussex. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1991, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD20302, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD20302 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Brooks |
| Address | South Farm, North of Rodmell, Rodmell, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 542700, 106900 |
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
- Field No.2 Northease FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Southease BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Field No.1 Northease FarmIndustrialHousehold
- Southerham Grey Pit LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Ham Lane Extension - Southern WaterIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Field No.3 Northease FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.