Wheathampstead School
Inert
Wheathampstead School is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Harpenden, Hertfordshire. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 6.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD10061, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10061 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wheathampstead School |
| Address | Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Hertfordshire County Council County Education Officer |
| Licence issued | 10 June 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 May 1986 |
| First waste input | 30 June 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1986 |
| Area | 6.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 517400, 213100 |
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
- Wick AvenueWaste types not recorded
- D'ArblayWaste types not recorded
- Blackbridge Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Blackbridge Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Blackbridge Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Blackbridge Landfill SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.