Westbrook Hay
Inert
Westbrook Hay is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste in 1992, covering about 7.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD09999, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09999 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Westbrook Hay |
| Address | Bourne End, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wyatt of Snetterton Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 February 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1992 |
| First waste input | 19 February 1992 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 7.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 502600, 205800 |
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
- Bullbeggars LaneSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bullbeggars Lane NorthWaste types not recorded
- Featherbed LaneInert
- Bovingdon Airfield LandfillInert
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.