Heathside Lane
IndustrialInert
Heathside Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1991, covering about 6.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD23984, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23984 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Heathside Lane |
| Address | Heathside Lane, Sandyford, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Turnscan Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 May 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 January 1994 |
| First waste input | 17 May 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1991 |
| Area | 6.7 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 384700, 352500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Off Boathouse RoadWaste types not recorded
- Line HousesWaste types not recorded
- West Of Heathside LaneHousehold
- East Of Heathside LaneHousehold
- Land At BankeyfieldsIndustrialInert
- Lowlands Colliery LimitedIndustrialInert
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.