Landfill Check

Preston Farm

Inert

Preston Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received inert waste in 1991, covering about 2.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD24280, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24280
Site namePreston Farm
AddressLand at Preston Farm, Upton Magna, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderAlfred Mcalpine Limited
Licence issued21 January 1991
Licence surrendered2 March 1993
First waste input21 January 1991
Last waste input31 August 1991
Area2.77 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference352800, 312000

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.