14 Acres of Land at Lower Farm
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14 Acres of Land at Lower Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Birkenhead. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1978 and 1982, covering about 6.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD16957, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16957 |
|---|---|
| Site name | 14 Acres of Land at Lower Farm |
| Address | Roman Road- Prenton Dell Road, Prenton, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Bootle Barge Company |
| Licence holder | The Walton Commercial Group |
| Licence issued | 20 September 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1986 |
| First waste input | 1 March 1978 |
| Last waste input | 1 April 1982 |
| Area | 6.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 329900, 385600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Noctorum WayIndustrialInert
- Storeton QuarryInert
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.