Landfill Check

Ashmere Farm

IndustrialCommercialInert

Ashmere Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bramhall. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste in 1985, covering about 0.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD17001, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD17001
Site nameAshmere Farm
AddressOff Woodford Road, Bramhall, Stockport
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderT P Galligan Esquire
Licence issued8 January 1985
Licence surrendered31 December 1985
First waste input31 December 1985
Last waste input31 December 1985
Area0.09 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference389700, 383900

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.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.