Tubbon Hill
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Tubbon Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penryn, Cornwall. It received industrial, household and commercial waste in 1990, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD08000, 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 | EAHLD08000 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tubbon Hill |
| Address | The Lodge, Kennal Vale, Ponsanooth, Truro, Cornwall |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Clearaway Skips |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 August 1990 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Cornwall SW |
| Grid reference | 175000, 37900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Kennall ValeWaste types not recorded
- Pensanooth Depot - Cosawes DepotIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Gilly FarmWaste 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.