Landfill Check

British Hydroflex

IndustrialInert

British Hydroflex is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Skelmersdale, Lancashire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1940 and 1983, covering about 3.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD06959, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06959
Site nameBritish Hydroflex
AddressAppley Bridge, Near Wigan, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderThomas Witter and Co Limited
Licence issued28 September 1977
Licence surrendered31 December 1983
First waste input31 May 1940
Last waste input31 December 1983
Area3.89 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentYes
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference352000, 409300

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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

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.