Yalberton Tor Quarry Landfill
Inert
Yalberton Tor Quarry Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Paignton, Torbay. It received inert waste between 2010 and 2024, covering about 4.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD36159, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36159 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Yalberton Tor Quarry Landfill |
| Address | Yalberton Road,,Paignton,Devon |
| Site operator | RF AGGREGATES (SOUTH WEST) LIMITED |
| Licence holder | RF AGGREGATES (SOUTH WEST) LIMITED |
| Licence issued | 29 December 2010 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 November 2024 |
| First waste input | 29 December 2010 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Devon and Cornwall |
| Grid reference | 286742, 59176 |
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
- Yalberton TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Paignton ZooInert
- Marl PitIndustrialInert
- Clennon Valley TipHousehold
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.