Landfill Check

Beedles Quarry

IndustrialInert

Beedles Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Syston, Leicestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1967 and 1991, covering about 9.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD28170, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28170
Site nameBeedles Quarry
AddressBroome Lane, Charnwood, East Goscote
Site operatorAcresford Sand and Gravel Company Limited
Licence holderAcresford Sand and Gravel
Licence issued11 January 1984
Licence surrendered17 June 1991
First waste input31 December 1967
Last waste input17 June 1991
Area9.23 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference463100, 313900

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.