Landfill Check

Former Dixon Open Cast Coal Site

SpecialIndustrial

Former Dixon Open Cast Coal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It received special (hazardous) and industrial waste from 1986, covering about 85.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD22730, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22730
Site nameFormer Dixon Open Cast Coal Site
AddressChesterfield, Derbyshire
Site operatorStanton Plc
Licence holderStanton Plc
Licence issued21 October 1986
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1986
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area85.87 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference440000, 374300

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Special:
the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
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

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.