Landfill Check

Former Borrow Pit Site

Waste types not recorded

Former Borrow Pit Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wilmslow, Cheshire East. It received waste of unrecorded type between 2001 and 2015, covering about 9.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD35950, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35950
Site nameFormer Borrow Pit Site
AddressAltrincham Road, Knutsford, Mobberley, Cheshire
Site operatorManchester Airport Plc
Licence holderManchester Airport Plc
Licence issued25 March 1993
Licence surrendered6 October 2015
First waste input14 March 2001
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area9.4 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaGtr Mancs Mersey and Ches
Grid reference381218, 382915

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.