GEC Diesels
Inert
GEC Diesels is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stafford, Staffordshire. It received inert waste between 1958 and 1993, covering about 1.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD29208, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29208 |
|---|---|
| Site name | GEC Diesels |
| Address | Dorman Diesels, Tixall Road, Stafford, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | GEC Diesels, Dorman Diesels Limited |
| Licence issued | 29 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1958 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.95 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 393700, 322900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- GEC Diesels LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Fairway Industrial EstateIndustrialInert
- Old Sewage WorksHouseholdInert
- Land Off Tixall RoadIndustrialInert
- Retail Park North Of BRC FactoryIndustrial
- Former British Reinforced Concrete WorksIndustrialInert
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.