Harbour Lane
Waste types not recorded
Harbour Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Macclesfield, Cheshire East. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1965 and 1970, covering about 1 hectares. Reference EAHLD31892, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31892 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Harbour Lane |
| Address | Gawsworth, Macclesfield, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Macclesfield Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1965 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1970 |
| Area | 1 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 387900, 370100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
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.