Landfill Check

Elsby's Tip

IndustrialInert

Elsby's Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1938 and 1983, covering about 4.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD24026, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24026
Site nameElsby's Tip
AddressLeek New Road, Between Berick Road And Bellerton Lane, Newford Valley, Sneyd Green
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderElsby Brothers Limited
Licence issued15 June 1977
Licence surrendered10 October 1984
First waste input31 December 1938
Last waste input6 August 1983
Area4.88 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference389200, 350100

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.