Thorpe Side
Inert
Thorpe Side is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. It received inert waste between 1996 and 1998, covering about 0.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD34691, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34691 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Thorpe Side |
| Address | Scalford |
| Site operator | J Lambert |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | 13 May 1996 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 1 September 1998 |
| Area | 0.67 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 476500, 323900 |
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
- Melford RoadInert
- Eastwell RoadInert
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.