Landfill Check

Bold Power Station Sidings Landfill

Liquid / sludge

Bold Power Station Sidings Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haydock. It received liquid/sludge waste between 1985 and 1991, covering about 5.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD16698, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD16698
Site nameBold Power Station Sidings Landfill
AddressSt. Helens Junction, Merseyside
Site operatorNational Power Plc
Licence holderNational Power Plc (Properties) Central Electricity Generating Board
Licence issued17 August 1990
Licence surrendered28 February 1991
First waste input1 October 1985
Last waste input1 February 1991
Area5.3 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference354100, 393300

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.