Landfill Check

Whitchurch Bypass Site No.3

HouseholdInert

Whitchurch Bypass Site No.3 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitchurch, Shropshire. It received household and inert waste between 1990 and 1991, covering about 7.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD24220, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24220
Site nameWhitchurch Bypass Site No.3
AddressNear Vineyard Farm, South of A41, Whitchurch, Shropshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBirse Construction Limited
Licence issued20 December 1990
Licence surrendered18 March 1992
First waste input7 November 1990
Last waste input31 December 1991
Area7.9 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference353700, 340000

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.