Landfill Check

Buckland Common Nurseries

IndustrialInert

Buckland Common Nurseries is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tring, Hertfordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1984 and 1987, covering about 4.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD12447, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD12447
Site nameBuckland Common Nurseries
AddressCholesbury Road, Cholesbury, Tring, Buckinghamshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHeath Transport
Licence issued17 August 1983
Licence surrendered9 March 1993
First waste input24 May 1984
Last waste input12 March 1987
Area4.17 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East TH
Grid reference492200, 207000

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.