Luxborough Lane
HouseholdInert
Luxborough Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chigwell, Essex. It received household and inert waste between 1983 and 1994, covering about 4.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD10867, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD10867 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Luxborough Lane |
| Address | Chigwell, Essex |
| Site operator | M Lennon and Company Limited |
| Licence holder | M Lennon and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 11 September 1983 |
| Last waste input | 26 April 1994 |
| Area | 4.74 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | North East TH |
| Grid reference | 542600, 192600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Woodford Bridge TipHouseholdCommercialInert
- Luxborough LaneWaste types not recorded
- Hill FarmHouseholdCommercialInert
- EFDC DepotWaste types not recorded
- Whitbreads Sports GroundWaste types not recorded
- Bush RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.