Historic landfill sites in Haydock
The Environment Agency records 14 historic landfill sites in and around Haydock. covering roughly 68 hectares in total. The largest is Southport Lane / Street at 13.68 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Haydock (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southport Lane / Street | 13.68 ha | 1972 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Havannah Flash | 8.12 ha | 1979 | Waste types not recorded |
| Swan Road / Newton Common / Swan Lane | 8.09 ha | — | Commercial |
| Swan Road / Newton Common / Swan Lane | 6.58 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Collins Green Shale Company Limited | 5.63 ha | 1989 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Bold Power Station Sidings Landfill | 5.3 ha | 1991 | Liquid / sludge |
| Frodshams | 3.27 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Havannah Lane | 3.13 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial |
| Malvern Road | 3.01 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Haydock Wood | 2.75 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Clipsley Lane | 2.48 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Pennington Lane Farm | 2.15 ha | 1978 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Waring Avenue | 1.7 ha | 1979 | Inert |
| Newton Road Flash (Pond) | 1.58 ha | 1983 | Inert |
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 Haydock?
- 14 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Haydock 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 Haydock?
- 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.