dataset · England
Historic Landfill Sites - Quarterly Summary
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 landfills. The dataset includes sites that existed before landfills were regulated. Much of this pre-licensing data was derived from a national survey in the early 1990s so it may be incomplete. It also includes site
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Evidence quality: 47.1
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 · historic landfill site attributes (name and address, licensee and operator, licence issue and surrender dates, waste types, historical comments) · individual landfill polygon shapefiles (available within the wider Historic Landfill dataset)
- Coverage llm-inferred
- England
- Update frequency docs-verified
- biannually (twice yearly)
- Formats docs-verified
- Microsoft Excel (ZIP download) · Shapefile (polygons)
- Access docs-verified
- Free and open; no public access constraints; use subject to the Environment Agency Conditional Licence
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Phase 1 contaminated land desk study: search for historic landfills within a site buffer · Ground gas and made-ground risk screening for development sites near former landfills · Groundwater and surface water pollution risk screening near historic waste sites
- Audience llm-inferred
- contaminated land consultants · geotechnical engineers · environmental consultants · planners · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- may be incomplete for pre-licensing sites (early 1990s national survey basis) · data quality and completeness vary with site age · Environment Agency is not the regulator for historic landfills · attributes may be missing where details are unavailable
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=83eee55e-fd71-4516-a39e-87953e9ef1bb&fileName=Historic Landfill Sites- Quarterly Summary - October 2025.zip
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/aa35a23f-f837-4d94-a91d-35b7cc14de38/historic-landfill-sites-quarterly-summary
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.