Chaddesden Sidings
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Chaddesden Sidings is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Derby, City of Derby. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1982 and 1993, covering about 15.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD22953, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22953 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chaddesden Sidings |
| Address | Litchurch, Derby |
| Site operator | Steetley Construction Materials Limited |
| Licence holder | Steetley Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 November 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1982 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1993 |
| Area | 15.27 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 436900, 335500 |
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.
- 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
- British Rail Engineering Limited/Locomotive WorksIndustrial
- Chaddesden SidingsIndustrialInert
- Pride Park Waste RepositoryWaste types not recorded
- Litchurch WorksIndustrialInert
- Chaddesden Sidings - Phase 2HouseholdInert
- Joseph Mason and Company LimitedWaste 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.