Bakers Close
HouseholdInert
Bakers Close is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Olney, Milton Keynes. It received household and inert waste between 1990 and 1993, covering about 1.6 hectares. Reference EAHLD01333, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01333 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bakers Close |
| Address | Newton Road, Turvey, Bedford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A W Ward |
| Licence issued | 7 December 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 May 1994 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 24 February 1993 |
| Area | 1.6 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 493900, 252000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
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.