Lount
Commercial
Lount is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. It received commercial waste from 1972, covering about 19 hectares. Reference EAHLD31312, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31312 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lount |
| Address | Lount, Near Ashby De La Zouch, Leicestershire |
| Site operator | Ashby De La Zouch Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 28 August 1972 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 438200, 318600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- LountWaste types not recorded
- Lount Wood FarmInert
- Lount Landfill Site C, Above GroundIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Doles Quarry LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Smoile WoodSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Lloyds Landfill SiteInert
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.