Cheadle Road Landfill Site
Industrial
Cheadle Road Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leek, Staffordshire. It received industrial waste from 1927, covering about 1.91 hectares. Reference EAHLD28877, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD28877 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cheadle Road Landfill Site |
| Address | Leekbrook, Leek, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Joshua Wardle Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1927 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.91 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 398200, 353900 |
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
- Leek Sewage WorksIndustrialInert
- Joshua Wardle LimitedIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Leek Water Reclamation WorksInert
- Wallgrange FarmIndustrialInert
- Croda Leek LimitedIndustrialCommercialInert
- Station RoadIndustrialInert
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.