North-South Runway
Inert
North-South Runway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes. It received inert waste between 1990 and 1992, covering about 0.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD01357, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01357 |
|---|---|
| Site name | North-South Runway |
| Address | Cranfield Airfield, Cranfield, Bedford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cranfield Institute Of Technology |
| Licence issued | 26 July 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 August 1992 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 494700, 241600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- North-South RunwayWaste types not recorded
- Brogborough LandfillSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Woburn RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.