Landfill Check

British Sugar Corporation Lagoons

Waste types not recorded

British Sugar Corporation Lagoons is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Selby, North Yorkshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1928 and 1983, covering about 8.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD05279, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05279
Site nameBritish Sugar Corporation Lagoons
AddressSelby, North Yorkshire
Site operatorBritish Sugar Corporation Selby
Licence holderBritish Sugar Corporation (Selby)
Licence issued17 March 1977
Licence surrendered25 March 1983
First waste input31 December 1928
Last waste input25 March 1983
Area8.49 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference463000, 432300

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

Boundary map

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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.