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Historic landfill sites in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire

The Environment Agency records 7 historic landfill sites in and around Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. covering roughly 22 hectares in total. The largest is Old Works Tip at 13.31 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Old Works Tip13.31 ha1994IndustrialInert
New Road/Moorbridge Road, Stapleford3.43 haWaste types not recorded
Birchwood Nursery1.43 ha1987Inert
Old Canal Site1.36 ha1981HouseholdCommercialInert
Moor Lane0.95 ha1973IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Bramcote Quarry/Coventry Lane Quarry0.83 haIndustrialInert
Nottingham Canal0.67 ha1973Commercial

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 Stapleford?
7 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Stapleford 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 Stapleford?
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.