Beal Valley Landfill
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Beal Valley Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shaw. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1998 and 2002, covering about 8.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD18042, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18042 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Beal Valley Landfill |
| Address | Off Meek Street, Higgenshaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | P Casey Enviro Limited |
| Licence holder | Park Pit Landfill Limited |
| Licence issued | 30 July 1998 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 November 2002 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 8.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 394100, 407000 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Prince Charlie StreetWaste types not recorded
- Ruby MillWaste types not recorded
- Prince of Wales MillWaste types not recorded
- Granville MillWaste types not recorded
- Land at Milne Street NorthWaste types not recorded
- Longfield MillWaste types not recorded
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.