Landfill Check

Opposite Folville House, Ashby Folville

Liquid / sludgeHousehold

Opposite Folville House, Ashby Folville is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. It received liquid/sludge and household waste on dates not recorded, covering about 0.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD28195, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28195
Site nameOpposite Folville House, Ashby Folville
AddressOpposite Folville House, Twyford Road, Ashby Folville, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.89 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference471400, 311600

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.

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.