Landfill Check

Mount Pleasant

Waste types not recorded

Mount Pleasant is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Potton, Central Bedfordshire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1974 and 1980, covering about 0.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD01481, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01481
Site nameMount Pleasant
AddressGamlingay
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderR and H Whale
Licence issued2 January 1974
Licence surrendered25 February 1980
First waste input1 February 1974
Last waste input24 February 1980
Area0.87 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference522900, 251600

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

Boundary map

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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.