Dixons Metal, Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray
Inert
Dixons Metal, Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. It received inert waste between 1973 and 1992, covering about 0.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD28133, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28133 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dixons Metal, Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray |
| Address | Leicester Road, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | G E Dixon and Sons |
| Licence holder | Dixon Scrap Metal Merchants |
| Licence issued | 6 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 June 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Last waste input | 5 June 1992 |
| Area | 0.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 474500, 318900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- Adjacent to White House Farm, Leicester RoadInert
- Saxby Road, Melton MowbrayInert
- Railway Cutting off Firwood RoadInert
- Off Leicester RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.