Birse Construction M62 Link Road
Inert
Birse Construction M62 Link Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Helens. It received inert waste between 1976 and 1981, covering about 4.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD16715, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16715 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Birse Construction M62 Link Road |
| Address | Sherdley Park, Eltonhead Road, St. Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Birse Construction Limited |
| Licence holder | Birse Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 November 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 18 May 1976 |
| Last waste input | 25 February 1981 |
| Area | 4.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 350800, 392900 |
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
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- Clay CollieryInert
- Sutton Heath QuarryIndustrialInert
- Roughdales Quarry Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Ravenhead Quarry Extension Waste ManagementWaste 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.