Landfill Check

Middleton North East Landfill

IndustrialInert

Middleton North East Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes. It received industrial and inert waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 36.56 hectares. Reference EAHLD01013, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01013
Site nameMiddleton North East Landfill
AddressBroughton, Milton Keynes
Site operatorCommission for New Towns
Licence holderCommission For New Towns
Licence issued20 January 1992
Licence surrendered13 April 1993
First waste input1 February 1992
Last waste input14 January 1993
Area36.56 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference489000, 239700

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

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.