National Power PLC Waste Disposal Site
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National Power PLC Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1971 and 1993, covering about 25.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD23010, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23010 |
|---|---|
| Site name | National Power PLC Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Derby Airfield, Egginton, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | National Power Plc |
| Licence holder | National Power Plc |
| Licence issued | 7 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 April 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1971 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1993 |
| Area | 25.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 425300, 329200 |
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
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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.