Gipsy Lane Tip
Inert
Gipsy Lane Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leicester, City of Leicester. It received inert waste from 1969, covering about 5.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD28249, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28249 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gipsy Lane Tip |
| Address | Gipsy Lane, Leicester, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | City Engineers Department |
| Licence holder | Leicester City Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 May 1969 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 461700, 306300 |
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
- Pit Disused off Progress WayWaste types not recorded
- Lewisher RoadWaste types not recorded
- Lewisher/Langham Roads AreaIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Thurmaston Boulevard Area, LeicesterWaste types not recorded
- New Star Road AreaInert
- Appleton Park, Troon WayIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.