CEGB Waste Disposal Site
Industrial
CEGB Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste between 1955 and 1978, covering about 10.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD18181, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18181 |
|---|---|
| Site name | CEGB Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Stretton, Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 7 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 November 1978 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1955 |
| Last waste input | 22 February 1978 |
| Area | 10.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 426500, 326600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Stretton No.1IndustrialInert
- Stretton Gravel PitWaste types not recorded
- Stretton Gravel PitIndustrialInert
- Stretton No.4AIndustrialInert
- Sports GroundIndustrial
- Landfill Site Adjoining Derby Road and Meadow LaneIndustrial
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.