Trelowth Road, Polgooth
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
Trelowth Road, Polgooth is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Austell, Cornwall. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and inert waste between 1950 and 1989, covering about 0.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD08310, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08310 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Trelowth Road, Polgooth |
| Address | Trelowth Road, Polgooth - Mayne Polgooth - Vercoe, St Stephens |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cornwall County Council |
| Licence issued | 24 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1995 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 199500, 50500 |
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.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- CannaframeCommercial
- Nanphysick FarmSpecialIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Wheal CommerceHouseholdCommercial
- Trewiddle QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Sewage Treatment WorksHouseholdCommercial
- Hewas MineHouseholdCommercialInert
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.