Landfill Check

Chestnut Barn

Inert

Chestnut Barn is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. It received inert waste between 2001 and 2004, covering about 0.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD34684, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34684
Site nameChestnut Barn
AddressShenton Lane, Upton
Site operatorMr and Mrs Cart
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued1 February 2001
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input31 December 2004
Area0.08 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference436400, 299900

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.

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.