Lime Lane
IndustrialCommercialInert
Lime Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Heanor, Derbyshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1973 and 1982, covering about 1.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD22919, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22919 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lime Lane |
| Address | Morley |
| Site operator | Tip Top Tips Limited |
| Licence holder | Tip Top Tips Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 December 1986 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1973 |
| Last waste input | 21 May 1982 |
| Area | 1.79 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 440000, 340100 |
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.
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.