M40 East of Barford Road
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
M40 East of Barford Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Warwick, Warwickshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 4.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD28643, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28643 |
|---|---|
| Site name | M40 East of Barford Road |
| Address | B4462, North of the M40 Junction 14, Warwick, Warwickshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | R M Douglas Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 April 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 March 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 4.17 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 428200, 262000 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Messrs Walton Goodey AggregatesWaste types not recorded
- SmithsWaste types not recorded
- Land at Park FarmInert
- Land West of Barford RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- East of B2462Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sewage WorksWaste types not recorded
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.