Southen Section of Field 297
Inert
Southen Section of Field 297 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Matlock, Derbyshire. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1987, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD22831, 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 | EAHLD22831 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Southen Section of Field 297 |
| Address | Greenhills Farm, Salters Lane, Snitterton, Near Matlock, Derbyshire |
| Site operator | F Beeston, Clerk of the Trustees |
| Licence holder | F Beeston, Clerk of the Trustees |
| Licence issued | 19 June 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 June 1987 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1987 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 428600, 360400 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Cawdor QuarrySpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Emgas Sub DepotInert
- Dimple FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.