Cammell Laird
Industrial
Cammell Laird is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Birkenhead. It received industrial waste between 1947 and 1975, covering about 6.11 hectares. Reference EAHLD16904, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16904 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cammell Laird |
| Address | Ship Builders and Engineers Limited, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Cammell Laird - Ship builders and Engineers Limited |
| Licence holder | Cammell Laird Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Area | 6.11 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 333000, 387400 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Monks Ferry DocksWaste types not recorded
- Monks Ferry DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrial
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrial
- Borough Road EastWaste types not recorded
- Monks Ferry Docks / Rose Brae 3, 4, 5 and 6 DocksIndustrialInert
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.