Historic landfill sites in Whitefield
The Environment Agency records 19 historic landfill sites in and around Whitefield. covering roughly 80 hectares in total. The largest is Tower Farm at 28 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Whitefield (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tower Farm | 28 ha | 1992 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Theodore St. Justs | 10.81 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Drinkwater Park | 9.92 ha | 1984 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Close Park | 5.41 ha | 1972 | Industrial |
| Land to the South of Whitehouse Farm | 4.38 ha | 1994 | Inert |
| Land at Rainsough Brow | 4.26 ha | 1968 | Household |
| Land to the west of the M66 motorway | 3.49 ha | — | Inert |
| Heathlands Drive - Kersal Road | 3.03 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Victoria Mill | 2.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Hog's Bridge | 1.99 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Mountheath Industrial Park | 1.62 ha | 1980 | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at Heaton Park | 1.29 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at Butter Stile Lane | 0.92 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at White Brow | 0.79 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land at Egypt Lane | 0.65 ha | — | Inert |
| Land at Glendale Avenue | 0.57 ha | — | Household |
| Whitefield Tip | 0.27 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Victoria Mill | 0.17 ha | — | Inert |
| Rear of Manchester Road | 0.14 ha | 1985 | IndustrialInert |
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 Whitefield?
- 19 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Whitefield 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 Whitefield?
- 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.