Cotham Tip/Cotham Pulverizer Plant
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Cotham Tip/Cotham Pulverizer Plant is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1972 and 1992, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD22205, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22205 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cotham Tip/Cotham Pulverizer Plant |
| Address | Hawton Lane, Cotham, Near Newark, Nottinghamshire |
| Site operator | Nottinghamshire County Council |
| Licence holder | Nottinghamshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 0.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 479600, 347900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cotham TipSpecialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cotham HWCHousehold
- Hawton TipCommercial
- Cotham Plasterboard/British Gypsum Limited, Former Hawton QuarryIndustrialInert
- Historic landfill EAHLD35902Waste types not recorded
- Jeniva/Hawton Quarry FarmLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
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.