Landfill Check

Cemetery Road

HouseholdCommercial

Cemetery Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radcliffe. It received household and commercial waste from 1969, covering about 2.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD15923, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD15923
Site nameCemetery Road
AddressRadcliffe, Greater Manchester
Site operatorBorough of Radcliffe
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 April 1969
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area2.24 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference378100, 407900

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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

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.