Leek Water Reclamation Works
Inert
Leek Water Reclamation Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leek, Staffordshire. It received inert waste in 1992, covering about 0.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD28885, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28885 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Leek Water Reclamation Works |
| Address | Northern Site, Leekbrook, Leek, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birse Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 April 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 16 April 1992 |
| Last waste input | 5 November 1992 |
| Area | 0.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 398000, 354500 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Wallgrange FarmIndustrialInert
- Leek Sewage WorksIndustrialInert
- Cheadle Road Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Joshua Wardle LimitedIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Croda Leek LimitedIndustrialCommercialInert
- Rear Of Station GarageInert
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.