Wakehurst Place
Waste types not recorded
Wakehurst Place is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cuckfield, West Sussex. It received waste of unrecorded type from 2011, covering about 1.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD35974, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35974 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wakehurst Place |
| Address | Wakehurst Place,Haywards Heath,Ardingly,West Sussex |
| Site operator | Royal Botanical Gardens Kew |
| Licence holder | Royal Botanical Gardens Kew |
| Licence issued | 16 November 2011 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Solent and South Downs |
| Grid reference | 532700, 131200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Tillingshurst FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ardingly ShowgroundInert
- Oldlands AvenueHouseholdCommercialInert
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.