Landfill Check

Uplands Farm Tip

Inert

Uplands Farm Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Desborough, North Northamptonshire. It received inert waste in 1979, covering about 2.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD02212, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD02212
Site nameUplands Farm Tip
AddressUplands Farm, Harrington Road
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJohn R Billows Limited
Licence issued1 February 1979
Licence surrendered1 February 1984
First waste input31 March 1979
Last waste input30 October 1979
Area2.07 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern AN
Grid reference480300, 278600

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

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.