Historic landfill sites in Coalville, Leicestershire
The Environment Agency records 25 historic landfill sites in and around Coalville, Leicestershire. covering roughly 75 hectares in total. The largest is Desford Brickworks at 23.08 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Coalville (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desford Brickworks | 23.08 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Coalville Brickworks Landfill Site | 15.8 ha | 1980 | Waste types not recorded |
| Ashby Road Landfill Site | 9.54 ha | 1972 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Ellistown Landfill Site | 5.7 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Playing Fields | 4.8 ha | 1977 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Station Road Recreation Ground | 3.58 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Adjacent to Industrial Estate | 2.19 ha | — | Inert |
| Church Lane | 1.88 ha | — | Household |
| Off Loughborough Road | 1.46 ha | 1979 | Inert |
| Opposite Disused Quarry | 1.12 ha | — | Inert |
| Peggs Green Refuse Tip | 1.11 ha | 1972 | Household |
| Coleorton Moor Refuse Tip | 0.9 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Battram Landfill Site B | 0.57 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Sewage Works, Off Breedon Lane | 0.52 ha | 1989 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Gelsmoor Road/Off Melbourne Road | 0.5 ha | 1981 | Inert |
| Battram Landfill Site A | 0.42 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Swannington, Off Church Hill | 0.37 ha | 1967 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Stanton Lane/Road | 0.2 ha | 1949 | Waste types not recorded |
| Station Road Landfill Site | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Thornton Lane | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Markfield Road | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Merrylees Road | 0.2 ha | 1958 | Waste types not recorded |
| Thornborough Road | 0.19 ha | 1988 | IndustrialInert |
| Snibston Landfill Site B | 0.17 ha | 1980 | IndustrialInert |
| Off Snarrows Road, Osgathorpe | 0.06 ha | 1984 | Industrial |
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 Coalville?
- 25 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Coalville 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 Coalville?
- 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.