Lower Somercotes
IndustrialInert
Lower Somercotes is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alfreton, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1986, covering about 7.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD22867, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD22867 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lower Somercotes |
| Address | Alfreton, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Cambro Contractors Limited |
| Licence holder | Cambro Contractors Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 December 1986 |
| First waste input | 20 June 1979 |
| Last waste input | 23 December 1986 |
| Area | 7.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 443500, 353200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lower SomercotesSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Springfield ParkWaste types not recorded
- New BirchwoodIndustrialInert
- Smotherly OpencastWaste types not recorded
- GranwoodWaste types not recorded
- Roughclose WorksIndustrial
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.