Clayton Bridge Industrial Estate
HouseholdCommercialInert
Clayton Bridge Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Failsworth. It received household, commercial and inert waste in 1989, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD16479, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16479 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Clayton Bridge Industrial Estate |
| Address | Off Millstream Lane, Failsworth, Oldham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S and B Plant Hire |
| Licence issued | 4 January 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 4 January 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1989 |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 389300, 399600 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Graver LaneWaste types not recorded
- Ash RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land off Willows DriveWaste types not recorded
- Land off Ely CrescentWaste types not recorded
- Jerico LodgeWaste types not recorded
- Clayton Vale Power StationSpecialLiquid / 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.