Landfill Check

Halliwell Industrial Estate

Industrial

Halliwell Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bolton. It received industrial waste from 1980, covering about 3.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD17873, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD17873
Site nameHalliwell Industrial Estate
AddressRegan Street-Makants Road, Halliwell, Bolton
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHarry Mason and Sons Limited
Licence issued1 October 1980
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area3.31 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference370800, 411100

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.

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.