Bank Top Lodge / Mills
Inert
Bank Top Lodge / Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lees. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1986, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD16199, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16199 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bank Top Lodge / Mills |
| Address | Wellyhole Street, Salem, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Newroyd Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 394800, 404800 |
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
- Medlock Vales Lees WestWaste types not recorded
- Medlock Vales Lees EastWaste types not recorded
- Disused railway trackIndustrialInert
- Land adjacent to Constantine Street (South)Commercial
- Heywith Zion PSWaste types not recorded
- Greenacres Congregational ChurchSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.