Gilroes Cemetery Tip
CommercialInert
Gilroes Cemetery Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leicester, City of Leicester. It received commercial and inert waste between 1902 and 1994, covering about 1.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD28248, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28248 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gilroes Cemetery Tip |
| Address | Gilroes Cemetery Tip, Groby Road, Leicester, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Leicester City Council |
| Licence issued | 28 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1902 |
| Last waste input | 14 March 1994 |
| Area | 1.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 455900, 306400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- New Parks, Off SamsonSpecial
- Newquay Drive, GlenfieldWaste types not recorded
- Beaumont Leys 2aLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Heacham DriveIndustrialInert
- Beaumont Leys 2BHouseholdCommercial
- Beaumont Leys 2CLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
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.