Landfill Check

Land to the West of Repton Road

Liquid / sludgeIndustrial

Land to the West of Repton Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swadlincote, Derbyshire. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste between 1978 and 1983, covering about 4 hectares. Reference EAHLD23795, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23795
Site nameLand to the West of Repton Road
AddressRepton Road, Willington, Derbyshire
Site operatorCentral Electricity Generating Board Midlands Region
Licence holderNational Power Plc
Licence issued21 June 1978
Licence surrendered30 January 1984
First waste input31 December 1978
Last waste input31 December 1983
Area4 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference429200, 327800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
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.