Water Filter Works
HouseholdCommercialInert
Water Filter Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1960 and 1992, covering about 6.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD11816, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD11816 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Water Filter Works |
| Address | Feltham Hill Road, Sunbury |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Oceana Site Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 July 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 May 1993 |
| First waste input | 20 September 1960 |
| Last waste input | 18 September 1992 |
| Area | 6.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South East TH |
| Grid reference | 510600, 170600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- South of Feltham Hill RoadInert
- South of Feltham Hill RoadWaste types not recorded
- Kempton Park Gravel PitInert
- Victors NurseryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Seymour Way EstateWaste types not recorded
- Kempton Park Race TrackIndustrialInert
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.