Bradford Road Works
SpecialIndustrialInert
Bradford Road Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Manchester. It received special (hazardous), industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1983, covering about 13.36 hectares. Reference EAHLD16491, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16491 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bradford Road Works |
| Address | Bradeley Hall Road, Haslington, Crewe, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | North West Gas |
| Licence issued | 7 December 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 December 1983 |
| First waste input | 7 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 1 December 1983 |
| Area | 13.36 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 386600, 398900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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
- New Viaduct StreetWaste types not recorded
- Bradford Road - Cambrian Street DepotInert
- Clayton ValeIndustrialInert
- Palmerston Street LandfillIndustrialInert
- Land adjacent to Mitchell StreetIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Clayton Vale Power StationIndustrialInert
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.