Landfill Check

Old Railway Cutting

Inert

Old Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Buckingham, Buckinghamshire. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1989, covering about 0.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD01391, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD01391
Site nameOld Railway Cutting
AddressRadclive, Buckinghamshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderK Alderton Esquire
Licence issued5 October 1987
Licence surrendered5 May 1993
First waste input16 September 1986
Last waste input1 February 1989
Area0.75 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference467500, 234200

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.

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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.