Main Street
IndustrialInert
Main Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1980, covering about 1.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD18137, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18137 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Main Street |
| Address | Branston, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W J Howard Esquire |
| Licence issued | 18 April 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 September 1980 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1980 |
| Area | 1.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 422700, 321300 |
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
- Hollyhock WayWaste types not recorded
- Branston Ash Lagoon No.2IndustrialInert
- Gravel PitLiquid / sludge
- Disused Gravel WorkingsIndustrialInert
- Branston Ash Lagoon No.4IndustrialInert
- Tatenhill Landfill SiteHousehold
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.