Landfill Check

Railway Cutting adjoining Sawmills

Inert

Railway Cutting adjoining Sawmills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brackley, West Northamptonshire. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1994, covering about 1.72 hectares. Reference EAHLD02309, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02309
Site nameRailway Cutting adjoining Sawmills
AddressBrackley, Northamptonshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBrackley Sawmills Limited
Licence issued28 March 1985
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 March 1985
Last waste input30 April 1994
Area1.72 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral AN
Grid reference458900, 238300

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.