VR Tip
IndustrialInert
VR Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Portishead, North Somerset. It received industrial and inert waste from 1920, covering about 9.96 hectares. Reference EAHLD09137, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09137 |
|---|---|
| Site name | VR Tip |
| Address | I S C Chemicals, Avonmouth, Avon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Britannia Zinc Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 November 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1920 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 9.96 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 352300, 179000 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Britannia Zinc Slag TipIndustrial
- Commonwealth Smelting LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Britannia Zinc Factory TipIndustrial
- Kingsweston LaneWaste types not recorded
- T. FarmInert
- St Andrews RoadInert
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.