dataset · England
Historic Landfill Sites
This dataset is currently updated every 6 months. Data on landfill sites that are surrendered or revoked will move from the Authorised Landfill Layer but may not be updated into this dataset on the same frequency. This data is a national historic landfill dataset that defines the location of and provides specific attributes for known historic landfill sites. An historic landfill is a site where there is no environmental permit in force. The Environment Agency is not the regulator for historic la
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Licence: ["1. Notwithstanding the fact that the standard wording of the Environment Agency Conditional Licence indicates that it is perpetual, this Licence has a limited duration of one year at the end of whic
Evidence quality: 46.6
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- historic landfill site locations and boundaries (polygons) · site attributes: name and address, licensee and operator, licence issue and surrender dates, first and last input dates, waste types, historical comments
- Coverage llm-inferred
- England (entry regions); docs extent lat 49.943 to 55.816, lon -6.236 to 2.072
- Resolution docs-verified
- Boundaries digitised from a base scale of 1:10,000; no temporal resolution stated
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Every 6 months per dataset summary; metadata frequency is 'asNeeded'; surrendered/revoked sites may lag
- Formats docs-verified
- ESRI Shapefile · GeoPackage · GeoJSON · File Geodatabase · OGC API - Features · WFS · WMS · LYR
- Access docs-verified
- Free download under Environment Agency Conditional Licence; licence is time-limited to one year and carries personal data conditions. No API key stated.
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Phase 1 contaminated land desk study: identify historic landfills within a search radius of a development site · Ground gas and leachate risk screening inputs for planning and site investigation scoping · Constraints mapping for flood risk and drainage assessments near former waste sites
- Audience llm-inferred
- geo-environmental consultants · contaminated land specialists · GIS analysts · planners · geotechnical engineers
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- Pre-licensing data largely from an early-1990s national survey and may be incomplete · Environment Agency is not the regulator for historic landfills · Surrendered or revoked sites may lag in updates · Incomplete attributes are not available · Licence is one year and terminates automatically; user must check personal data compliance · Metadata update frequency ('asNeeded') conflicts with 6-monthly summary
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=ad5d67b4-9972-4519-8c41-887ea760ef06&fileName=Historic_Landfill_Sites.gdb.zip
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/17edf94f-6de3-4034-b66b-004ebd0dd010/historic-landfill-sites1
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.