Landfill Check

London Brick

IndustrialInert

London Brick is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Peterborough, City of Peterborough. It received industrial and inert waste from 1966, covering about 4.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD00754, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD00754
Site nameLondon Brick
AddressLondon Road, Norman Cross, Peterborough
Site operatorLondon Brick Company Limited
Licence holderLondon Brick Company Limited
Licence issued1 February 1974
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1966
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area4.16 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference516400, 291000

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.
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.