Landfill Check

Hemington Pit, North West Leicestershire

IndustrialInert

Hemington Pit, North West Leicestershire is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Long Eaton, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1965 and 1993, covering about 34.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD28112, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28112
Site nameHemington Pit, North West Leicestershire
AddressHemington Pit, Leicestershire
Site operatorBCA Limited
Licence holderBCA Limited
Licence issued8 December 1977
Licence surrendered19 March 1993
First waste input31 July 1965
Last waste input19 March 1993
Area34.57 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference446000, 329800

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.

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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.