Former Gas Works
Inert
Former Gas Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Droylsden. It received inert waste from 1994, covering about 2.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD16504, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16504 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Gas Works |
| Address | Greenside Lane, Droylsden |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 3 October 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 390300, 398600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ash RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- CuttingSpecialInert
- Cooperas LaneWaste types not recorded
- Medlock Vale Farm Inert Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Jerico LodgeWaste types not recorded
- Vales LaneWaste 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.