Landfill Check

Whitehurst's Tip

IndustrialInert

Whitehurst's Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1985 and 1990, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD18094, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD18094
Site nameWhitehurst's Tip
AddressManor Farm, Nobut, Leigh, Near Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderD A Whitehurst
Licence issued13 March 1985
Licence surrendered8 March 1990
First waste input31 March 1985
Last waste input31 January 1990
Area0.33 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference404600, 334500

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.