Lea Crescent Tip
Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
Lea Crescent Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rugby, Warwickshire. It received liquid/sludge, household and commercial waste between 1970 and 1972, covering about 6.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD31286, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31286 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lea Crescent Tip |
| Address | Rugby, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Rugby Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 18 May 1970 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Area | 6.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 448500, 276600 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Off Main StreetHousehold
- Malpass's TipInert
- Off Little Lawford LaneWaste types not recorded
- Rugby Cement ( Westside 11 )Industrial
- GEC RugbyWaste types not recorded
- Eleven ArchesWaste 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.