Historic Landfill Sites
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 It also includes sites that were licensed (permitted) where that licence is no longer in force, in accordance with the legislation at the time. The Historic Landfill dataset includes information that is held by either the local authority or the Environment Agency. The data is available in ESRI shape file format, with the boundaries digitised from a base scale of 1:10,000 and an associated attribute table comprising 34 fields. Where information is available, the polygons and attributes describe where the sites were located, when they were used, who used them and what was deposited. Where sites were licensed, there are name and address fields, licensee and operator information, licence issue and surrender dates, first and last input dates and waste types, together with some historical comments. Where an attribute is incomplete, that detail is not available. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2018. All rights reserved. Contains information © Local Authorities
dataset
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill-FGDB.zip
description: HistoricLandfill-FGDB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill-GeoJSON.zip
description: HistoricLandfill-GeoJSON.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill-GML.zip
description: HistoricLandfill-GML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill-KML.zip
description: HistoricLandfill-KML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill-MID_MIF.zip
description: HistoricLandfill-MID_MIF.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill-SHP.zip
description: HistoricLandfill-SHP.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill-TAB.zip
description: HistoricLandfill-TAB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: Historic_Landfill_Sites_010k.lyr
description: Historic_Landfill_Sites_010k.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform
https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/7a955570-d465-11e4-a37c-f0def148f590?download=true
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill_Download
description: Download data by area of interest
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/historic-landfill/wms
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill_WMS
description: Historic Landfill WMS
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/historic-landfill/wfs
protocol: http
name: HistoricLandfill_WFS
description: Historic Landfill WFS
DSTR03181
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
planningCadastre
environment
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
planningCadastre
environment
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
landfill
publication
2010-01-13
landfill gas
publication
2010-01-13
landfill leachate
publication
2010-01-13
-6.236
2.072
55.816
49.943
2099-12-31
creation
1948-01-01
revision
2023-07-19
asNeeded
Initially based on the information gathered from Environment Agency region and area offices including hard copy data (scans of documents etc) and GIS layers. Extra data from the Local Authorities was then included also including hard copy and GIS data. Two previously undertaken projects with the same aim (of finding all Historic Landfills in England &Wales) also provided hard copy and GIS data. These were a project done by the Water Resources Council and another by the British Geological Survey in the early 1970's. Finally the data is updated from those sites closing and removed from the Authorised Landfill dataset (whose source is REGIS and PAS).
Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
Not Applicable
Environment Agency Conditional Licence (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-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 which it will terminate automatically without notice. 2.1. The Information contains some data that we believe is within the definition of “personal data” under the Data Protection Act 1998 but we consider that we will not be in breach of the Act if we disclose it to you with conditions set out in this condition and the condition above. This personal data comprises information relating to individuals, or to sites operated by an individual or partnership of individuals. 2.2 Under the Act a person who holds and uses or passes to others personal data is responsible for any compliance with the Act and so we have no option but to warn you that this means you have responsibility to check that you are compliant with the Act in respect of this personal data.
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 which it will terminate automatically without notice. 2.1. The Information contains some data that we believe is within the definition of “personal data” under the Data Protection Act 1998 but we consider that we will not be in breach of the Act if we disclose it to you with conditions set out in this condition and the condition above. This personal data comprises information relating to individuals, or to sites operated by an individual or partnership of individuals. 2.2 Under the Act a person who holds and uses or passes to others personal data is responsible for any compliance with the Act and so we have no option but to warn you that this means you have responsibility to check that you are compliant with the Act in respect of this personal data.
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 which it will terminate automatically without notice. 2.1. The Information contains some data that we believe is within the definition of “personal data” under the Data Protection Act 1998 but we consider that we will not be in breach of the Act if we disclose it to you with conditions set out in this condition and the condition above. This personal data comprises information relating to individuals, or to sites operated by an individual or partnership of individuals. 2.2 Under the Act a person who holds and uses or passes to others personal data is responsible for any compliance with the Act and so we have no option but to warn you that this means you have responsibility to check that you are compliant with the Act in respect of this personal data.
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