Landfill Check

Potter Barn

IndustrialInert

Potter Barn is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1991 and 1993, covering about 0.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD22685, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD22685
Site namePotter Barn
AddressClement Lane, Bradwell Moor, Bradwell, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Site operatorNether Water Plant Services
Licence holderNether Water Plant Services
Licence issued11 November 1991
Licence surrendered3 September 1993
First waste input1 August 1991
Last waste input31 August 1993
Area0.27 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference415400, 380800

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.