Landfill Check

Foxholes Farm

IndustrialInert

Foxholes Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilkeston, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1991 and 1992, covering about 5.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD22918, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22918
Site nameFoxholes Farm
AddressWest Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire
Site operatorH J Banks and Company Limited
Licence holderH J Banks and Company Limited
Licence issued25 June 1991
Licence surrendered23 February 1993
First waste input31 December 1991
Last waste input23 February 1992
Area5.55 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference443900, 340400

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.