Beddington Farmlands Landfill Site

Beddington Farmlands Landfill Site
Site Location See Non-Hazardous Landfill → page for a wider UK perspective.
Waste Licence	VP3039SW (VP3039SW)
Operator	Valencia Waste

Void

Year	Total Void
2018	40322
2019	10000
2020	10000

Summary site information collated from a variety of sources
including: Monksleigh, Ellard Associates, EA, WasteDataFlow,
SEPA, NRW, DEFRA, BEIS and owner and developer websites

History

Beddington landfill was developed by Than=mes Waste Management in the mid-1990s. It is located to the 2 km to the west of Croydon

The previous use of the site was as a sewage farm associated with the adjoining sewage treatment plant. Sewage farms comprise areas of land used to process and treat sewage sludge to manufacture a soil fertiliser product. They were more commonly used in the 19th and early 20th century than they are nowadays.

The Waste Management Licence was changed to an Environmental Permit in 2003/4 as required by the changing legislation at the time.

The capacity at the site as originally granted Planning Permission was circa 2,500,000 cubic metres; this was subsequently increased upon approval of a revised Landfill Surcharge Allowance and set of Landfill Settlement Contours to around 3,800,000 cubic metres.

Geology The quarry is excavated into Triassic age Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds. These constitute a Principal Aquifer, although due to the morphology of the deposit, locally they are not water-bearing to any significant degree. The Pebble Beds are underlain by clays of the Keuper Marl.

Engineering and Environmental Controls The landfill is constructed as a Containment Facility, utilizing the underlying clay materials as the principal barrier. The landfill lining system is augmented with a flexible membrane liner of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) on the base and the lower part of the sidewalls. The sidewalls are steeply graded and required buttressing to enable construction within the 30 meter deep quarry.

There is Landfill Gas power generation with electricity export to the National Grid. Installed capacity is 4.89MW. [1]

Viridor have been unable to secure a connection to the local sewerage system, principally due to a lack of local treatment capacity at the receiving Sewage Treatment Works. Consequently, Leachate produced by the site is removed by tanker to appropriately permitted Sewage Treatment Works.

Other Infrastructure Elsewhere within the quarry complex, Viridor also developed an In-vessel Composting (IVC) facility to deal with some of Devon County Council's separately collected Green Waste. This facility is no longer in operation and has been converted to be used a Waste Transfer Station.

Tonnage Handled

Only Waste Codes receiving over 5,000t are shown.

Waste Tonnage, EWC List

The table shows a list of the Waste for the Permit VP3039SW, that has arrived into sites as reported to the Regulator and then publicised in their reported statistics. The Data was last updated in October 2024. The total reported tonnage arriving at the site was: 166,600t.

EWC Code	Description	Tonnes In
17 05 04	soil and stones other than those mentioned in 17 05 03	166600.00