Landfill Check

Land off Wigston Lane

Inert

Land off Wigston Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leicester, City of Leicester. It received inert waste between 1960 and 1970, covering about 2.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD28298, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28298
Site nameLand off Wigston Lane
AddressLand off Wigston Lane, Aylestone, Leicester, Leciestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 January 1960
Last waste input1 January 1970
Area2.93 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference457500, 300400

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.

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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.