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Historic landfill sites in Sandiacre, Derbyshire

The Environment Agency records 22 historic landfill sites in and around Sandiacre, Derbyshire. covering roughly 246 hectares in total. The largest is Existing Plant Area and Silt Ponds at 72.85 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Existing Plant Area and Silt Ponds72.85 ha1994Industrial
Elvaston Quarry, Ambaston Area43.48 ha1992IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Elvaston Quarry32.61 ha—Waste types not recorded
Elvaston Quarry26.7 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Breaston Waste Disposal Site/Elvaston Quarry18.53 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Elvaston Quarry - Loop of River Derwent8.35 ha1990SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Elvaston Quarry6.65 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Erewash Valley Golf Club6.58 ha1991Industrial
Breaston Tip, Elvaston Quarry6.18 ha1986SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Elvaston Quarry6.02 ha1992Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Elvaston Quarry5.85 ha1988Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Elvaston Quarry2.73 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Church Farm1.8 ha1993Inert
Elvaston Quarry1.77 ha1988SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land Between Seven Oaks Road and Stanton Iron Works1.16 ha1991IndustrialInert
Existing Plant Area and Silt Ponds0.96 ha1994Industrial
Lime Lane Tip0.93 ha1985Waste types not recorded
Disused Canal0.85 ha1982IndustrialInert
Haley and Weller Limited0.71 ha1992HouseholdCommercialInert
General Industrial Cleaners/Landfill Site0.67 ha1988Industrial
Old Playing Field, Rear of NOTSA Engineering0.48 ha—Industrial
S.W. Bailey and Sons0.06 ha1986IndustrialInert

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 Sandiacre?
22 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Sandiacre 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 Sandiacre?
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.