Bidston Steel Limited
IndustrialInert
Bidston Steel Limited is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wallasey. It received industrial and inert waste between 1983 and 1990, covering about 1.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD16800, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16800 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bidston Steel Limited |
| Address | Valley Road, Bidston, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Bidston Steel Limited |
| Licence holder | Bidston Steel Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 October 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1983 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1990 |
| Area | 1.47 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 329100, 390600 |
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
- Bidston Moss Landfill SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Compton Road TipHousehold
- Bidston MossIndustrialHousehold
- Bidston MossHousehold
- Flaybrick QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Land to the North and South of Bidston StationWaste 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.