Roughclose Works
Industrial
Roughclose Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alfreton, Derbyshire. It received industrial waste from 1977, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD30249, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30249 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Roughclose Works |
| Address | Roughclose Works, Alferton, Derby |
| Site operator | Exchem Explosives Limited |
| Licence holder | Exchem Explosives Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 442200, 354500 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Nottingham RoadIndustrialInert
- Scotts CranesIndustrialInert
- Old Swanwick Colliery Branch LineIndustrialInert
- Springfield ParkWaste types not recorded
- New BirchwoodIndustrialInert
- Leabrooks Disposal TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.