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Historic landfill sites in Derby, City of Derby

The Environment Agency records 53 historic landfill sites in and around Derby, City of Derby. covering roughly 311 hectares in total. The largest is Derby Quarry at 38.39 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Derby (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Derby Quarry38.39 ha—Industrial
Sinfin Moor Park27.56 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdInert
Chaddesden Sidings - Phase 224.29 ha1993HouseholdInert
National Power PLC24.15 ha—Industrial
Rowditch Tip18.26 ha1991SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Chaddesden Sidings15.27 ha1993IndustrialHouseholdInert
Alfreton Road Extension13.84 ha1982Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Manor Farm10.96 ha1994IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Stenson Road10.35 ha1985IndustrialInert
Off Darley Street9.95 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Litchurch Works9.86 ha1993IndustrialInert
Ingleby Lane9.58 ha—Industrial
Derbyshire County Council Waste Disposal Site, Chellaston Brickworks9.4 ha1990IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Derbyshire County Council Waste Disposal Site, Darley Abbey9.18 ha1986SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Mansfield Road8.39 ha1986Industrial
Disused Railway Cutting and Tunnel off Station Road7.36 ha1993Inert
Aston Brickworks7.19 ha—Waste types not recorded
A E Hibbs & Sons Ltd Ford Lane7.06 ha—Industrial
Sunnyhill: Former Qualcast site6.74 ha1991Waste types not recorded
Manor Farm3.53 ha1993Inert
Chaddesden Sidings3.53 ha1993IndustrialInert
Railway Cutting off Swarkestone Road (A514)2.94 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Aston Hill Borrow Pit2.77 ha—IndustrialHousehold
Louther2.75 ha1986Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Megaloughton Lane Landfill Site2.34 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Manor Farm2.28 ha1989IndustrialInert
South East of Kedleston Road/Queensway Junction2.18 ha1984Inert
Markeaton Stones Farm2.02 ha1983IndustrialInert
Manor Farm2 ha1994IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Alfreton Road1.66 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Nottingham Road1.57 ha—Waste types not recorded
Derelict Land off Mansfield Road1.53 ha1991Industrial
Royal School for the Deaf1.48 ha1982IndustrialCommercialInert
The Wood, Longcroft Farm1.05 ha1986Industrial
Darley Abbey Refuse Tip0.96 ha1986IndustrialInert
Pride Park Waste Repository0.96 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land Adjacent to Scotch Bridge0.87 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
British Rail Engineering Limited/Locomotive Works0.8 ha1982Industrial
The Dingle0.8 ha1978IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Rear of the Bungalow0.69 ha1985IndustrialInert
Staker Lane Roundabout0.55 ha1984IndustrialInert
Old Plaster Pits0.55 ha—Waste types not recorded
Joseph Mason and Company Limited0.5 ha—Waste types not recorded
Kingsway Industrial Estate0.5 ha1990IndustrialCommercialInert
Sinfin Lane0.43 ha1987HouseholdInert
Disused Canal0.39 ha1986IndustrialInert
Brickyard Wood Farm0.33 ha1986IndustrialInert
Stenson Fields Farm0.29 ha1989IndustrialInert
Mansfield Road0.2 ha1972Waste types not recorded
Ex War Department Camp0.2 ha1987Waste types not recorded
Terrell Hayes Crossroads0.2 ha1982IndustrialInert
Kingsway Industrial Estate0.1 ha1990Inert
South of Works0.09 ha1982Liquid / sludgeIndustrial

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 Derby?
53 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Derby 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 Derby?
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.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.