Landfill Check

Gas Holder, Market Drayton

Inert

Gas Holder, Market Drayton is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Market Drayton, Shropshire. It received inert waste in 1989, covering about 0.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD24225, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24225
Site nameGas Holder, Market Drayton
AddressGas Holder, Market Drayton Depot Holder Station, Newtown, Market Drayton, Shropshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBritish Gas
Licence issued8 September 1989
Licence surrendered3 November 1992
First waste input20 January 1989
Last waste input30 September 1989
Area0.23 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference367700, 333900

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.