Buff Quarry
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Buff Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Helens. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1986 and 1994, covering about 8.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD17242, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17242 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Buff Quarry |
| Address | Chester Lane, Sutton, St. Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Merseyside County Council / Cleanaway Limited |
| Licence holder | Cleanaway Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 May 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 8.62 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 351700, 392100 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Chester LaneCommercialInert
- Red QuarryInert
- Roughdales SidingsWaste types not recorded
- Daisyfield Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Birse Construction M62 Link RoadInert
- Birse Construction M62 Link RoadInert
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.