Landfill Check

Grand Union Canal Landfill Site

IndustrialInert

Grand Union Canal Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Daventry, West Northamptonshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1983 and 2010, covering about 0.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD35733, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35733
Site nameGrand Union Canal Landfill Site
AddressGrand Union Canal, Yelvertoft, Northants
Site operatorGrand Union Canal Landfill Site
Licence holderGrand Union Canal Landfill Site
Licence issued17 May 1993
Licence surrendered3 August 2010
First waste input23 September 1983
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.55 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern
Grid reference460338, 274686

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.