Historic landfill sites in Arnold, Nottinghamshire
The Environment Agency records 11 historic landfill sites in and around Arnold, Nottinghamshire. covering roughly 52 hectares in total. The largest is Arnold Lane / Lambley Lane at 15.68 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Arnold (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arnold Lane / Lambley Lane | 15.68 ha | 1988 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bestwood Landfill Site/Bestwood Quarry | 13.97 ha | 1996 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Dorket Head Inert Site | 5.18 ha | — | Inert |
| Dorket Head Quarry | 4.54 ha | — | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Breckhill Quarry | 3.04 ha | 1979 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Calverton Road | 2.79 ha | 1978 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Gedling Tip | 2.41 ha | 1978 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Lurcher Farm | 1.87 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Gedling Tip | 1.16 ha | 1978 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Disused Railway Cutting, Allamoor Farm | 0.92 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Woodthorpe Drive Railway Cutting | 0.41 ha | 1981 | IndustrialInert |
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Arnold?
- 11 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Arnold town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Arnold?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.