Anchor Road
IndustrialInert
Anchor Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1976 and 1980, covering about 0.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD24080, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24080 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Anchor Road |
| Address | Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W and J Wass Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 November 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 November 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1980 |
| Area | 0.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 391900, 344800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Wass TipIndustrialInert
- Dividy RoadIndustrialInert
- North East Off Mossfield RoadIndustrialInert
- Wass TipCommercialInert
- Ex/Disused Berryhill Railway LineIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Rear Of Adderley Green WorksCommercial
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.