Landfill Check

Danes Moss Landfill Site

Waste types not recorded

Danes Moss Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Macclesfield, Cheshire East. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1993 and 2008, covering about 64 hectares. Reference EAHLD36064, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD36064
Site nameDanes Moss Landfill Site
AddressCongleton Road,Gawsworth,Macclesfield,Cheshire
Site operator3 C Waste Ltd
Licence holder3 C Waste Ltd
Licence issued4 February 1993
Licence surrendered22 December 2008
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area64 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaGtr Mancs Mersey and Ches
Grid reference390570, 371160

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

Boundary map

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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.