Slag Pit
IndustrialInert
Slag Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1986 and 1992, covering about 15.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD30306, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30306 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Slag Pit |
| Address | Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Steel Corporation |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 September 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Last waste input | 23 September 1992 |
| Area | 15.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 492100, 410200 |
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
- British Steel Corporation Redbourne/Coke Oven Site, Burma RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Scunthorpe ConcastLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Brigg RoadIndustrial
- Dawes Lane Site B - Firth BrownIndustrialInert
- Cottage Beck RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Scunthorpe,- Firth BrownIndustrialInert
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.