Existing Plant Area and Silt Ponds
Industrial
Existing Plant Area and Silt Ponds is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sandiacre, Derbyshire. It received industrial waste between 1986 and 1994, covering about 0.96 hectares. Reference EAHLD22982, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22982 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Existing Plant Area and Silt Ponds |
| Address | Elvaston Quarry, Sawley Road, Draycott |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Powergen Plc |
| Licence issued | 21 October 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 May 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 0.96 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 444900, 331600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Haley and Weller LimitedHouseholdCommercialInert
- Breaston Tip, Elvaston QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Breaston TipSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Breaston Waste Disposal Site/Elvaston QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Existing Plant Area and Silt PondsIndustrial
- Domilows LandLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.