Landfill Check

Valley Farm

Inert

Valley Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ipswich, Suffolk. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1990, covering about 2.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD01972, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01972
Site nameValley Farm
AddressValley Farm, Sproughton
Site operatorSoils Disposals Limited
Licence holderSoils Disposals Limited
Licence issued15 June 1987
Licence surrendered28 February 1990
First waste input31 December 1987
Last waste input28 February 1990
Area2.32 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaEastern AN
Grid reference611500, 243300

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.

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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.