Landfill Check

Dunston Works

IndustrialInert

Dunston Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dronfield, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1940 and 1990, covering about 1.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD22725, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22725
Site nameDunston Works
AddressDunston, Derbyshire
Site operatorLeigh Environmental Limited
Licence holderLeigh Environmental Limited
Licence issued8 September 1978
Licence surrendered9 January 1990
First waste input31 December 1940
Last waste input9 January 1990
Area1.08 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference435900, 374900

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.