Violet Villa
Liquid / sludgeInert
Violet Villa is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste from 1967, covering about 2.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD27858, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27858 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Violet Villa |
| Address | Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire |
| Site operator | Packer and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | Messrs Packer and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 September 1967 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.24 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 392800, 224300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Market Garden Land at Violet VillaWaste types not recorded
- Playing Field off Alstone LaneWaste types not recorded
- St James Car ParkCommercial
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.