Fisons Landfill
IndustrialInert
Fisons Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sandbach, Cheshire East. It received industrial and inert waste between 1937 and 1992, covering about 0.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD17144, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17144 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fisons Landfill |
| Address | Holmes Chapel, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Fison Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 June 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1937 |
| Last waste input | 14 June 1992 |
| Area | 0.44 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 376700, 366400 |
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
- Fisons LimitedIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stockery Park FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Woodhouse FarmWaste types not recorded
- Stockery Park FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Stookery Park FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Stockery Park FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.