Landfill Check

Fox Covert

IndustrialInert

Fox Covert is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste in 1990, covering about 2.35 hectares. Reference EAHLD23788, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23788
Site nameFox Covert
AddressEtwall Sand and Gravel Pit, Fox Covert, Etwall, Derbyshire
Site operatorRedland Aggregates Limited
Licence holderRedland Aggregates Limited
Licence issued9 January 1990
Licence surrendered19 December 1990
First waste input31 January 1990
Last waste input30 November 1990
Area2.35 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference428200, 329900

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.