Westdown Saltmarsh Lane
Waste types not recorded
Westdown Saltmarsh Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Polegate, East Sussex. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1988 and 1989, covering about 0.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD19897, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD19897 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Westdown Saltmarsh Lane |
| Address | Land Opposite Peel House, Westdown Saltmarsh Lane, Hailsham, Sussex |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.66 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Sussex SO |
| Grid reference | 558900, 107000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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- Tudor CloseIndustrialInert
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- Priesthawes Farm, HankhamInert
- Honeypot FarmInert
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.