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Remaining Landfill Capacity

Publisher
Environment Agency
Updated
17 April 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

Datasets for remaining landfill capacity by site in England at the end of the calendar year. Data is available for 2015-2024 on this record.

Permitted landfill operators have a condition in their permits to report the remaining landfill void (capacity) of their sites at the end of the calendar year. This information although used for compliance purposes is also used by the Government, Local Authorities and other interested parties for statutory reporting and waste planning purposes.

Data is provided in cubic metres and collated into a national dataset. There are only around 500 operational landfills in England and Wales. Operators can claim commercial confidentiality for their data at time of submission.

Pre 2006-2014 data is available on request.

INFORMATION WARNING Data for sites with a commercial confidentiality in place are not provided.

VERSIONS 2019 - Version 2 09/12/2020 2020 - Version 1 30/9/2021 2020 - Version 2 11/01/2022 Corrected column titles - no data changes. 2021 - Original 23/9/2022 2021 - Version 2 11/01/2023 2022 - Version 1 04/09/23 2022 - Version 2 26/03/24 2023 - Version 1 25/09/24 2024 - Version 1 19/09/24 Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
13 April 2026
Harvest GUID
6d0cd361-d465-11e4-81cd-f0def148f590
Extent (Latitude)
55.816° to 49.943°
Extent (Longitude)
-6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date (creation)
2015-01-01
Dataset reference date (publication)
2024-09-25
Dataset reference date (revision)
2025-09-19
Frequency of update
annually
Access constraints
Special conditions: 1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you. 2. The period of permitted use is one year. 3. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights. 4. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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Environment Agency Conditional Licence (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-conditional-licence/environment-agency-conditional-licence), Special conditions:\n1. You may use the Information for your internal or personal purposes and may only sublicense others to use it if you do so under a written licence which includes the terms of these conditions and the agreement and in particular may not allow any period of use longer than the period licensed to you.\n2. The period of permitted use is one year.\n3. We have restricted use of the Information as a result of legal restrictions placed upon us to protect the rights or confidentialities of others. If you contact us in writing (this includes email) we will, as far as confidentiality rules allow, provide you with details including, if available, how you might seek permission from a third party to extend your use rights.\n4. This condition does not apply if use is limited to use that is authorised by any statute or use that does not require a licence from us.

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