Landfill Check

Five Gates Hollow

IndustrialInert

Five Gates Hollow is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dronfield, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 1.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD04814, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04814
Site nameFive Gates Hollow
AddressTroway, Marsh Lane, Sheffield
Site operatorMr J Hayward
Licence holderMr J Hayward
Licence issued20 December 1982
Licence surrendered2 April 1984
First waste input31 December 1982
Last waste input31 October 1983
Area1.28 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference438200, 379500

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.