Waterford Plantation and Timber Orchard
Inert
Waterford Plantation and Timber Orchard is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hertford, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 0.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD12203, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD12203 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Waterford Plantation and Timber Orchard |
| Address | Waterford, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Greenham Construction Materials Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 October 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 531000, 214600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Waterford Plantation and Timber OrchardInert
- Waterford Quarry LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- St Michael and All Angels ChurchInert
- Waterford Quarry LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Waterford Quarry LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Waterford Quarry LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.