Historic landfill sites in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester
The Environment Agency records 23 historic landfill sites in and around Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester. covering roughly 116 hectares in total. The largest is Speke Airport at 46.95 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Ellesmere Port (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speke Airport | 46.95 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rivacre Valley | 12.48 ha | 1988 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Marsh Lane | 9.96 ha | 1977 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Banks Road | 7.11 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Hooton Park | 6.39 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rosemore Road West | 5.97 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Field No. 1635 / Backford Borrow Pit | 4.27 ha | 1982 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Hooton Park | 4.16 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Hartford Drive - Capenhurts Lane | 3.7 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rivacre Valley Ship Canal | 2.83 ha | 1982 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Area 36/55 | 2.49 ha | — | Inert |
| Station Road | 2.12 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Burmah Refinery | 1.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| The Dock | 1.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Queens Avenue | 1.26 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Factory Unit - Former Stedall Premises | 1.11 ha | — | Inert |
| Thornton Green Hotel | 0.93 ha | 1985 | Inert |
| Infilling of Small Paddock | 0.56 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Dunkirk Lane | 0.54 ha | 1987 | Waste types not recorded |
| Ince Power Station | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| East Site | 0.2 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Burmah Refinery | 0.18 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| BNFL Capenhurst Works | 0.07 ha | 1987 | SpecialLiquid / sludge |
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 Ellesmere Port?
- 23 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Ellesmere Port 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 Ellesmere Port?
- 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.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.