Off Clay Lane - High Street
Inert
Off Clay Lane - High Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Clay Cross, Derbyshire. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1982, covering about 1.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD04854, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04854 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Off Clay Lane - High Street |
| Address | Clay Cross, Chesterfield |
| Site operator | Michael McErlain Limited |
| Licence holder | Michael McErlain Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 September 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 September 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 1.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 439000, 363100 |
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
- Bridge StreetIndustrialHouseholdInert
- L.A. TipCommercial
- Egstow Quarry Site - Brassington LaneWaste types not recorded
- Smithymoor FarmIndustrial
- Pit LaneInert
- Hollins GreenIndustrialInert
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.