Historic landfill sites in Radcliffe
The Environment Agency records 22 historic landfill sites in and around Radcliffe. covering roughly 34 hectares in total. The largest is King George V Playing Fields at 5.92 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Radcliffe (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| King George V Playing Fields | 5.92 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| East Lancashire Paper Mill | 5.12 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Red Bank | 4.67 ha | — | Household |
| Disused Bury-Bolton Railway line | 3.48 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Land at Mount Sion Street | 3.27 ha | 1976 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Cemetery Road | 2.24 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Land at Freightman Hillock Farm | 1.72 ha | 1993 | IndustrialInert |
| Land South West Of Sion Street | 1.08 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Land adjacent to Ainsworth Road - Coventry Road | 0.9 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land off Dumers Lane | 0.74 ha | — | Inert |
| Cemetery Road | 0.73 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Boiler house East Lancashire Paper Mill | 0.68 ha | 1989 | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Land at Darbyshire Street | 0.63 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lower Heaps Farm | 0.59 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
| Railway Cutting | 0.55 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Stand Golf Course | 0.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at Cemetery Road | 0.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rear of Constellation Mill | 0.19 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| Newhive Works | 0.14 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Stand Golf Course | 0.13 ha | — | Inert |
| Stand Golf Course | 0.09 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land South Of Ringley Road | 0.06 ha | 1994 | 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 Radcliffe?
- 22 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Radcliffe 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 Radcliffe?
- 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.