Builders Tip at Slag Lane
Inert
Builders Tip at Slag Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Westbury, Wiltshire. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1984, covering about 0.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD09043, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD09043 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Builders Tip at Slag Lane |
| Address | Slag Lane, Westbury, Wiltshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mould and Foreman |
| Licence issued | 21 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 21 April 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1984 |
| Area | 0.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North Wessex SW |
| Grid reference | 386900, 152600 |
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
- Land at Slag LaneInert
- Land at Slag LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Former Railway CuttingIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Site Adjoining Railway StationInert
- Riding SchoolInert
- Westbury Cement WorksSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.