Landfill Check

Franklins Gardens

HouseholdInert

Franklins Gardens is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Northampton, West Northamptonshire. It received household and inert waste between 1979 and 1986, covering about 3.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD02107, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02107
Site nameFranklins Gardens
AddressOff Abbey Street, Northampton
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBarton Plant Limited
Licence issued30 January 1980
Licence surrendered4 November 1986
First waste input31 December 1979
Last waste input31 October 1986
Area3.48 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference473700, 260300

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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.