Disused Railway cutting between Redhouse Lane and George Lane
IndustrialInert
Disused Railway cutting between Redhouse Lane and George Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Romiley. It received industrial and inert waste in 1986, covering about 1.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD16764, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16764 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway cutting between Redhouse Lane and George Lane |
| Address | Stockport Road East, Bredbury, Stockport |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Redrow Developments Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 June 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 June 1987 |
| First waste input | 1 July 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 1.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 393100, 391500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Disused Railway cutting between Stockport Road East And Redhouse LaneIndustrialInert
- Disused Railway Cutting between Stockport Road East and George RoadIndustrialInert
- Rodney DriveWaste types not recorded
- Mill Lane Recreation Ground LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Bredbury LandfillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- J and A. Jackson LimitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
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.