Landfill Check

Disused Chalk Quarry

IndustrialInert

Disused Chalk Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Luton, Luton. It received industrial and inert waste between 1981 and 1992, covering about 11.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD00997, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD00997
Site nameDisused Chalk Quarry
AddressLuton Road, Barton-Le-Clay, Bedfordshire
Site operatorStotley Brothers Limited
Licence holderBarton Lime Company (1957) Limited
Licence issued25 July 1990
Licence surrendered27 April 1994
First waste input31 March 1981
Last waste input10 July 1992
Area11.4 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference507800, 229600

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.