Landfill Check

Coventry Road

IndustrialInert

Coventry Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1992, covering about 1.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD28352, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28352
Site nameCoventry Road
AddressCoventry Road, Blaby, Leicestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderLeicester Landfill Contractors
Licence issued18 April 1980
Licence surrendered3 November 1992
First waste input31 May 1979
Last waste input3 November 1992
Area1.77 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference452800, 296300

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.
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.