Western Pipes
Inert
Western Pipes is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bovey Tracey, Devon. It received inert waste between 1956 and 1990, covering about 3.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD08796, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD08796 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Western Pipes |
| Address | Newton Road, Heathfield, Newton Abbot, Devon |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Dainton Group Services Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 June 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1956 |
| Last waste input | 8 October 1990 |
| Area | 3.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon SW |
| Grid reference | 283000, 76200 |
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
- Swallows NestWaste types not recorded
- Blue WaterWaste types not recorded
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.