Downing and Company
Industrial
Downing and Company is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste from 1947, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD23435, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23435 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Downing and Company |
| Address | Etruria Tileries, Etruria Way, Basford, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 386200, 346900 |
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.
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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.