Landfill Check

Off Watergate Lane, Braunstone

Household

Off Watergate Lane, Braunstone is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leicester, City of Leicester. It received household waste until 1931, covering about 0.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD22612, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22612
Site nameOff Watergate Lane, Braunstone
AddressBraunstone, Leicestershire
Site operatorLeicester City Council
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input31 December 1931
Area0.9 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference455500, 300900

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.

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.