Landfill Check

East Of Colclough Lane

IndustrialHousehold

East Of Colclough Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It received industrial and household waste until 1974, covering about 10.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD24082, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24082
Site nameEast Of Colclough Lane
AddressColclough Lane, Goldenhill, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input31 December 1974
Area10.26 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference386100, 353300

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.
Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.