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List of legacy waste deposits (including historical landfill sites) across England and Wales, ranked by environmental risk to the coastal environment under future climate scenarios

https://doi.org/10.5285/2501589d-1a13-4e6e-a25b-b74993c5b758
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This dataset contains the output of a national-scale prioritisation exercise aimed at determining the risks posed by 30,310 legacy waste sites and historical landfill sites to the coastal environment of England and Wales. The analysis was repeated under three future coastal change scenarios (short-, medium-, and long-term), and is sortable based on the overall risk score for each climate scenario.
Publication date: 2026-03-19

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Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference systems
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
GB place names

Provenance & quality

A combination of publicly available and proprietary shapefiles of waste deposits were analysed using GIS methods. Output data were then fed into a prioritisation method based on source-pathway-receptor models. A suite of spatial data has been integrated in order to score potential risks associated with waste type (Source), likelihood of pollutant release relating to current and future flood and erosion climate projections, alongside current management infrastructure (Pathway), and proximity to sensitive ecological features or proxies of human use in coastal areas (Receptors).

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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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Riley, A.L.; Mayes, W.M.; Jarvis, A.P.; Amezaga, J.M.; Burke, I.T.; Byrne, P.; Crane, R.A.; Comber, S.D.W.; Gandy, C.J.; Hudson-Edwards, K.A.; Jennings, E.; Lewis, E.; Lofts, S.; MacDonald, J.M.; Malcolm, H.; Onnis, P.; Olszewska, J.; Spears, B. (2026). List of legacy waste deposits (including historical landfill sites) across England and Wales, ranked by environmental risk to the coastal environment under future climate scenarios. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/2501589d-1a13-4e6e-a25b-b74993c5b758

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Riley AL, Amezaga J, Burke IT, Byrne P, Cooper N, Crane RA, Comber SDW, Gandy CJ, Hudson-Edwards KA, Jennings E, Lewis E, Lofts S, MacDonald JM, Malcolm H, Mayes WM, Onnis P, Olszewska J, Spears B and Jarvis AP (2022) Incorporating conceptual site models into national-scale environmental risk assessments for legacy waste in the coastal zone. Front. Environ. Sci. 10:1045482. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1045482
https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1045482

Correspondence/contact details

Adam Jarvis
Newcastle University
 adam.jarvis@newcastle.ac.uk

Authors

Riley, A.L.
University of Hull
Mayes, W.M.
University of Hull
Jarvis, A.P.
Newcastle University
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-3791
Amezaga, J.M.
Newcastle University
Burke, I.T.
University of Leeds
Byrne, P.
Liverpool John Moores University
Crane, R.A.
University of Exeter
Comber, S.D.W.
University of Plymouth
Gandy, C.J.
Newcastle University
Hudson-Edwards, K.A.
University of Exeter
Jennings, E.
The University of Queensland
Lewis, E.
University of Manchester
Lofts, S.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
MacDonald, J.M.
University of Glasgow
Malcolm, H.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Onnis, P.
University of Cagliari
Olszewska, J.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Spears, B.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Rights holder
University of Hull

Additional metadata

Topic categories
environment
geoscientificInformation
INSPIRE theme
Human Health and Safety
Keywords
Climate and climate change , coast , Environmental risk , Environmental survey , geochemistry , impact assessment , landfill , landfill leachate , pollution , waste , water quality
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/T003286/1
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/T003022/1
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/T002824/1
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/T003200/1