Landfill Check

The Folly

Inert

The Folly is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. It received inert waste between 1992 and 2003, covering about 16.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD01899, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01899
Site nameThe Folly
AddressCulford Road, Ingham, Suffolk
Site operatorT J and W M Cardy Limited
Licence holderT J and W M Cardy Limited
Licence issued2 March 1992
Licence surrendered25 September 2003
First waste input2 March 1992
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area16.38 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference585300, 271500

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

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.