Landfill Check

Common Farm/Newtons Lane, Cossall, Land adjacent to Nottingham Canal

IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Common Farm/Newtons Lane, Cossall, Land adjacent to Nottingham Canal is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilkeston, Derbyshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1987 and 1988, covering about 2.86 hectares. Reference EAHLD22240, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22240
Site nameCommon Farm/Newtons Lane, Cossall, Land adjacent to Nottingham Canal
AddressNewtons Lane, Cossall, Nottinghamshire
Site operatorMr Noon
Licence holderMr D Noon
Licence issued28 September 1987
Licence surrendered23 October 1992
First waste input31 December 1987
Last waste input31 December 1988
Area2.86 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference447800, 343200

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.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.