Wollaston Plant
IndustrialCommercial
Wollaston Plant is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire. It received industrial and commercial waste from 1972, covering about 1.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD31136, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31136 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wollaston Plant |
| Address | Off Irchester Road, Wollaston, Northamptonshire |
| Site operator | Wellingborough Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 July 1972 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northern AN |
| Grid reference | 490600, 264500 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Wollaston Landfill SiteHouseholdInert
- Irchester Landfill Site - Vicarage FarmInert
- Wellingborough Urban District CouncilInert
- Land North of Gipsy LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Irchester Landfill SiteInert
- Ironstone QuarryInert
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.