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Historic landfill sites in Alsager, Cheshire East

The Environment Agency records 26 historic landfill sites in and around Alsager, Cheshire East. covering roughly 99 hectares in total. The largest is Day Green Pulveriser at 20.84 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Alsager (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Day Green Pulveriser20.84 haLiquid / sludgeCommercial
Industrial Waste Tip17.22 ha1979IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Hassal Road15.94 ha1992SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
The Brunds Sand Pit13.4 ha1990Inert
Smiths Green Farm6.75 ha1987Inert
Daisy Bank Farm3.44 ha1987Inert
Dirt Track Road2.85 haHousehold
Dirt Track Road2.48 haIndustrialHousehold
Miry Wood Quarry1.94 ha1978Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
South of Wood Lane1.87 haWaste types not recorded
Hougher Wall1.61 ha1972Inert
Cherry Lane1.59 haLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Hassall Green1.53 ha1988SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Chell Hills Farm - Site off B50781.24 haIndustrialCommercial
Alsager Factory0.89 haIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
New Farm0.84 ha1987Inert
Old Railway Line0.8 ha1983Industrial
Diglake0.61 haHousehold
Old Sand Hole0.48 ha1987Liquid / sludge
Rose Farm0.47 haWaste types not recorded
Miles Green Farm0.47 ha1971Waste types not recorded
Samdbach Road North0.41 haWaste types not recorded
Old Mall Pit0.36 haLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Land Off New Road0.3 haIndustrial
Top End Farm0.08 haWaste types not recorded
Chells Hill Farm0.08 haWaste types not recorded

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Alsager?
26 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Alsager town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Alsager?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.