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Derbyshire County Council, Victory Quarry Waste Disposal site

IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Derbyshire County Council, Victory Quarry Waste Disposal site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1987 and 1995, covering about 5.97 hectares. Reference EAHLD22711, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22711
Site nameDerbyshire County Council, Victory Quarry Waste Disposal site
AddressLongbridge Lane, Dove Holes, Buxton
Site operatorDerbyshire County Council
Licence holderDerbyshire County Council
Licence issued23 September 1987
Licence surrendered28 February 1995
First waste input31 December 1987
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area5.97 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference407900, 376800

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.