Sports Ground off Bletchley Road
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Sports Ground off Bletchley Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bletchley, Milton Keynes. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1969 and 1994, covering about 18.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD01316, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD01316 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sports Ground off Bletchley Road |
| Address | Newton Longville, Milton Keynes |
| Site operator | London Brick Land Development Limited |
| Licence holder | Shanks and McEwan |
| Licence issued | 13 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1969 |
| Last waste input | 1 April 1994 |
| Area | 18.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central AN |
| Grid reference | 485200, 232100 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- London Brick Company LimitedCommercial
- B4034, Water EatonWaste types not recorded
- Area A2 Newton Longville Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Flettons PitIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.