Cottesmore Tip
HouseholdCommercial
Cottesmore Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oakham, Rutland. It received household and commercial waste between 1977 and 1984, covering about 1.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD01532, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01532 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cottesmore Tip |
| Address | Burley Road, Cottesmore, Oakham. Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Leicestershire County Council |
| Licence issued | 21 October 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 August 1989 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 1.77 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 489100, 312800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Cottesmore, South of Ashwell RoadWaste types not recorded
- Exton RoadInert
- Warren FarmIndustrialInert
- Old Barrow TipIndustrialHousehold
- Warren FarmIndustrialCommercial
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.