Alpha Playing Fields
Inert
Alpha Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Denton. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1990, covering about 2.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD16624, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16624 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Alpha Playing Fields |
| Address | Manchester Road, Denton |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Fairclough Civil Engineering Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 July 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 August 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 2.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391100, 395400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Between Alpha fields and A57Waste types not recorded
- Site Adjacent To M66 MotorwayInert
- Land West of M66 betweenInert
- Denton FiveInert
- Denton Hall Farm (Denton IV)SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Denton FourIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.