Broughton Grounds
Inert
Broughton Grounds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1993, covering about 15.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD01354, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01354 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Broughton Grounds |
| Address | Broughton, Milton Keynes |
| Site operator | Amey Roadstone Corporation Limited |
| Licence holder | J M Farms Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 April 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 24 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 17 April 1980 |
| Last waste input | 24 February 1993 |
| Area | 15.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 491300, 240400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Broughton GroundsInert
- Broughton BarnsWaste types not recorded
- Broughton VillageWaste types not recorded
- Broughton BarnWaste types not recorded
- Former reservoir Middleton Site10EWaste types not recorded
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.