Landfill Check

Cold Riding Farm

Inert

Cold Riding Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stone, Staffordshire. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 1.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD23969, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23969
Site nameCold Riding Farm
AddressCocknage Wood, Lightwood, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderVershire Transport
Licence issued13 August 1985
Licence surrendered28 February 1986
First waste input1 October 1985
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.06 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference391600, 340800

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.

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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.