Landfill Check

Water Hall Landfill

Inert

Water Hall Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hertford, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste on dates not recorded, covering about 19.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD12982, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD12982
Site nameWater Hall Landfill
AddressWater Hall, Hertford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area19.9 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference529800, 210100

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.