Landfill Check

Bucks Hill Landfill Site

Liquid / sludgeHouseholdInert

Bucks Hill Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. It received liquid/sludge, household and inert waste between 1970 and 1977, covering about 3.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD23558, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23558
Site nameBucks Hill Landfill Site
AddressOff Bucks Hill, Bucks Hill, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Site operatorG W Daeley Limited
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1970
Last waste input1 January 1977
Area3.66 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference432800, 292400

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
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.

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.