Disused Effluent Plant
Inert
Disused Effluent Plant is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shaw. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1989, covering about 0.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD15743, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15743 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Effluent Plant |
| Address | Ogden Mill, Newhey, Rochdale |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | P W Greenhaigh and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 July 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 August 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 394800, 412000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ogden MillWaste types not recorded
- Piethorne Wastewater Treatment Works LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Disused Railway TrackIndustrial
- Lower House FarmInert
- Woodend MillWaste types not recorded
- Park MillsWaste types not recorded
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.