Landfill Check

Meadow Lane

Inert

Meadow Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Ives, Cambridgeshire. It received inert waste between 1969 and 1992, covering about 0.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD01473, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01473
Site nameMeadow Lane
AddressSt Ives, Cambridgeshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderARC Limited
Licence issued9 September 1985
Licence surrendered7 March 1993
First waste input31 December 1969
Last waste input31 December 1992
Area0.46 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference532400, 270400

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.