High Carr Tip
IndustrialHousehold
High Carr Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It received industrial and household waste between 1984 and 1989, covering about 3.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD23412, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23412 |
|---|---|
| Site name | High Carr Tip |
| Address | High Carr Tip, High Carr, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | National Coal Board Western Area |
| Licence issued | 25 June 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 July 1989 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 383900, 351000 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- High CarrHouseholdCommercialInert
- High Carr FarmInert
- Road Opposite High Carr FarmInert
- Cherry HillWaste types not recorded
- Talke Road / West of Bradwell WoodWaste types not recorded
- Land South Of High Carr FarmWaste types not recorded
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.