Landfill Check

Willington Power Station/Land to West of Repton Road

Liquid / sludge

Willington Power Station/Land to West of Repton Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Swadlincote, Derbyshire. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1983 and 1997, covering about 22.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD23813, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23813
Site nameWillington Power Station/Land to West of Repton Road
AddressWillington, Derbyshire
Site operatorNational Power Plc
Licence holderNational Power Plc
Licence issued15 September 1983
Licence surrendered31 December 1983
First waste input31 December 1983
Last waste input31 December 1997
Area22.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaLower Trent MI
Grid reference428900, 327700

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.

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.