East Lancashire Paper Mill
IndustrialInert
East Lancashire Paper Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Radcliffe. It received industrial and inert waste from 1979, covering about 5.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD17961, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17961 |
|---|---|
| Site name | East Lancashire Paper Mill |
| Address | Rear of Church Street East, Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | East Lancashire Paper Mill Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 March 1979 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 5.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 379400, 407100 |
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
- Boiler house East Lancashire Paper MillSpecialIndustrialInert
- Tower FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Theodore St. JustsWaste types not recorded
- Close ParkIndustrial
- Land off Dumers LaneInert
- Land at Darbyshire StreetWaste 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.