Megaloughton Lane Landfill Site
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Megaloughton Lane Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Derby, City of Derby. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 2009 and 2018, covering about 2.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD36043, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36043 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Megaloughton Lane Landfill Site |
| Address | Megaloughton Lane,Spondon,Derby,Derbyshire |
| Site operator | Acetate Products Limited |
| Licence holder | Acetate Products Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 February 2018 |
| First waste input | 6 February 2009 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.34 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Derbys Notts and Leics |
| Grid reference | 439530, 335430 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Disused CanalIndustrialInert
- Nottingham RoadWaste types not recorded
- Chaddesden Sidings - Phase 2HouseholdInert
- Litchurch WorksIndustrialInert
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.