Birks Quarry
Waste types not recorded
Birks Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lees. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1997 and 2002, covering about 2.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD17964, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17964 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Birks Quarry |
| Address | Off Huddersfield Road, Austerlands, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Webfell Group Limited |
| Licence holder | Webfell Waste Management Limited |
| Licence issued | 4 July 1997 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 September 2002 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 395800, 405700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at Austerlands MillWaste types not recorded
- Land at Thorp LaneWaste types not recorded
- Land at Hey Crescent / Sun Hill MillsWaste types not recorded
- Land at Newroyd MillWaste types not recorded
- Land at Majestic MillsWaste types not recorded
- Land at Orb 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.