Barrows Green Lane
Inert
Barrows Green Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Widnes, Halton. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1985, covering about 10.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD16900, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16900 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Barrows Green Lane |
| Address | Barrows Green, Halton, Widnes |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | William Rainford Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 October 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 October 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1985 |
| Area | 10.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 353600, 387500 |
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
- Moorfield RoadWaste types not recorded
- The BongsSpecial
- TAC works landfillWaste types not recorded
- TAC works landfill / the BongsWaste types not recorded
- Former Glebe Caravan Storage ParkWaste types not recorded
- Micro Milling LimitedSpecialIndustrial
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.