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Historic landfill sites in Sandbach, Cheshire East

The Environment Agency records 31 historic landfill sites in and around Sandbach, Cheshire East. covering roughly 48 hectares in total. The largest is Arclid Tip at 7.81 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Arclid Tip7.81 ha1977Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Maw Lane4.22 ha1989Inert
Hawthorn Drive4.12 ha—Waste types not recorded
Malkins Bank Golf Course3.82 ha1991IndustrialInert
Moss Lane Tip3.23 ha—Industrial
Forge Fields2.97 ha1998IndustrialInert
Zan Works2.71 ha1992Inert
Red Lane Tip2.6 ha—IndustrialInert
Rear of Fields Farm2.38 ha1988IndustrialInert
Pool Lane / Well Bank2.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sandlow Green Farm2.17 ha1985Waste types not recorded
Sleepy Meadow Pet Cemetery1.4 ha—Waste types not recorded
Stockery Park Farm1.07 ha1983IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Gravel Farm1.03 ha1991SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Stookery Park Farm0.76 ha1984IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Part of Limebeds at Flash Farm / Elton Hall Farm0.6 ha1992Inert
Elworth Hall0.59 ha1984Inert
Elworth Hall Farm0.58 ha1986Waste types not recorded
Red Lane0.58 ha1994SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Elworth Hall0.46 ha1984Inert
Fisons Landfill0.44 ha1992IndustrialInert
Woodhouse Farm0.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Stockery Park Farm0.34 ha1983IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Stockery Park Farm0.32 ha1988HouseholdCommercialInert
Fisons Limited0.31 ha1973IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Winterley Pool Farm0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Stockery Park Farm0.2 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Sandlow Green Farm0.16 ha1984IndustrialInert
Sandlow Green Farm0.13 ha1984IndustrialInert
Knights Hulme Farm0.12 ha1992Inert
Knights Hulme Farm0.1 ha1992Inert

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 Sandbach?
31 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Sandbach 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 Sandbach?
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.