Landfill Check

Hinkley Road Landfill Site

Industrial

Hinkley Road Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hinckley, Leicestershire. It received industrial waste from 1989, covering about 1.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD23277, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23277
Site nameHinkley Road Landfill Site
AddressBurbace Road, Sapcote Road Junction, Hinckley, Hinckley and Bosworth
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderF E Downs Limited
Licence issued24 November 1989
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 May 1989
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.53 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference444100, 293400

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.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.