Carrington Lane
IndustrialInert
Carrington Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Urmston. It received industrial and inert waste between 1961 and 1972, covering about 1.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD17888, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17888 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Carrington Lane |
| Address | Ashton-upon-Mersey, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Percy rowles and Sons Limited |
| Licence holder | Connolly Land Developments Limited |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1961 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1972 |
| Area | 1.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 376100, 392700 |
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
- Carrington LaneWaste types not recorded
- Hawthorn RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- South of Askers FarmIndustrialCommercial
- Buckfast RoadHousehold
- Land at LongmeadowWaste types not recorded
- Barrowfield FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.