Landfill Check

Stretton No.4A

IndustrialInert

Stretton No.4A is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1960 and 1984, covering about 3.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD18173, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD18173
Site nameStretton No.4A
AddressStretton, Near Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCentral Electricity Generation Board, Moseley
Licence issued14 October 1977
Licence surrendered8 February 1984
First waste input1 January 1960
Last waste input27 January 1984
Area3.63 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference427100, 326000

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

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.