BOCM - Silcocks Limited
Inert
BOCM - Silcocks Limited is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Salford. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1985, covering about 4.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD17858, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17858 |
|---|---|
| Site name | BOCM - Silcocks Limited |
| Address | Trafford Wharf Road, Old Trafford, Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | SDC Builder |
| Licence issued | 2 November 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 February 1985 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1985 |
| Area | 4.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 380100, 397000 |
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
- No.3 Dry DockIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Opposite Trafford Wharf Enterprise ParkWaste types not recorded
- Warfside Way - John Glibert WayWaste types not recorded
- Canal Side NorthWaste types not recorded
- Former Rail DepotWaste types not recorded
- Trafford Ecology Park and Aidleys TransportIndustrial
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.