Herring Slip Area
Inert
Herring Slip Area is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. It received inert waste between 1974 and 1990, covering about 0.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD01585, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01585 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Herring Slip Area |
| Address | Royal Dock Basin, Grimbsy |
| Site operator | British Transport Docks Board |
| Licence holder | BTDB |
| Licence issued | 22 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 January 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 528000, 411300 |
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
- Graving Dock AWaste types not recorded
- Graving Dock BIndustrial
- Foreshore Landfill - PyewipeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- New Clee SidingsWaste types not recorded
- Pyewipe MillsWaste types not recorded
- Chapman's PondHouseholdCommercialInert
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.