Landfill Check

Scotland Wood Farm

Inert

Scotland Wood Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. It received inert waste between 1992 and 1993, covering about 23.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD02094, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02094
Site nameScotland Wood Farm
AddressMaidwell, Northamptonshire
Site operatorPeter Binnie Limited
Licence holderPeter Binnie Limited
Licence issued30 September 1992
Licence surrendered31 December 1993
First waste input13 July 1992
Last waste input31 December 1993
Area23.03 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference473600, 277100

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.

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.