Langs, Land at end of Private Road No 4, Colwick Industrial Estate
IndustrialCommercialInert
Langs, Land at end of Private Road No 4, Colwick Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1980, covering about 0.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD22257, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22257 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Langs, Land at end of Private Road No 4, Colwick Industrial Estate |
| Address | Colwick, Nottingham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | M Lang Scrap Metal Merchants |
| Licence issued | 12 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Area | 0.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 463400, 339700 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Smiths Waste DisposalWaste types not recorded
- Trent Concrete/Lagoon to South East of Structures FactoryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Holme LaneSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Trent ConcreteIndustrial
- Off Adbolton LaneIndustrialInert
- Tarmac Roadstone/Radcliffe TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.