Landfill Check

Middleton South West Landfill

IndustrialInert

Middleton South West Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes. It received industrial and inert waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 31.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD01012, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01012
Site nameMiddleton South West Landfill
AddressMilton Keynes
Site operatorCommission for New Towns
Licence holderCommission For New Towns
Licence issued25 September 1992
Licence surrendered13 April 1993
First waste input1 October 1992
Last waste input12 March 1993
Area31.21 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference488700, 238700

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.