Historic landfill sites in Staveley, Derbyshire
The Environment Agency records 30 historic landfill sites in and around Staveley, Derbyshire. covering roughly 134 hectares in total. The largest is Cemetery Lane at 31.33 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Staveley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cemetery Lane | 31.33 ha | 1975 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Hall Lane Tip | 18.51 ha | 1966 | Waste types not recorded |
| Site between Eckington Road | 13.61 ha | 1991 | CommercialInert |
| Campbell Brickworks | 13.46 ha | 1991 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Foxlow Tip | 7.44 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Staveley Sewage Works | 7.12 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Norwood Chemical Works | 5.6 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Rother Valley Way-New Street | 5.47 ha | 1991 | CommercialInert |
| Bilby Lane | 4.63 ha | 1986 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Off Longcourse Lane | 3.98 ha | 1986 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Old Chesterfield Canal | 3.8 ha | 1980 | IndustrialInert |
| Poolsbrook Farm | 2.67 ha | — | Commercial |
| Troway | 2.29 ha | 1974 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Renishaw Foundry | 1.89 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Elkington Road Tip | 1.58 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Siday Lane | 1.27 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Former Gunsite | 1.07 ha | 1984 | CommercialInert |
| Woodall Road | 1.01 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
| Rother Valley Country Park | 1.01 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Former Holbrook Colliery Branch Cutting | 0.92 ha | — | Commercial |
| Station Road | 0.85 ha | 1992 | IndustrialInert |
| SW Corner of Site | 0.84 ha | 1992 | IndustrialInert |
| Campbell Tip | 0.84 ha | — | Commercial |
| Land at Hall Farm | 0.82 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Emmett Carr Farm | 0.4 ha | — | Industrial |
| Haven Farm No 2 | 0.39 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Canal to the east of Nethermoor Lane | 0.38 ha | 1978 | IndustrialInert |
| Marsh Quarry | 0.32 ha | — | Industrial |
| Enclosures 4333 and 4758 | 0.26 ha | 1986 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Emmett Carr Farm | 0.22 ha | 1993 | 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 Staveley?
- 30 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Staveley 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 Staveley?
- 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.