Landfill Check

Westlands Copse Landfill Site

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Westlands Copse Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Arundel, West Sussex. It received household and commercial waste between 1940 and 1993, covering about 4.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD19936, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD19936
Site nameWestlands Copse Landfill Site
AddressPoling, Arundel, Sussex
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued17 June 1992
Licence surrendered31 March 1993
First waste input31 December 1940
Last waste input31 December 1993
Area4.27 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSussex SO
Grid reference504300, 105700

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.