Havelock Works Landfill
SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
Havelock Works Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bootle. It received special (hazardous), liquid/sludge and industrial waste between 1980 and 1986, covering about 1.36 hectares. Reference EAHLD16532, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16532 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Havelock Works Landfill |
| Address | Park Lane, Bootle, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Braby Group Limited |
| Licence holder | Braby Works Limited / Braby Group Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 February 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 April 1986 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1980 |
| Last waste input | 1 April 1986 |
| Area | 1.36 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 336400, 397700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- 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
- Aintree Curve BrickworksInert
- Fir GroveWaste types not recorded
- R J Mason Inert LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Evered AvenueWaste types not recorded
- Fernhill Road, Fernhill cutting, Langton BranchIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.