Higher Hills Farm Inert Landfill
Waste types not recorded
Higher Hills Farm Inert Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mossley. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1991 and 2022, covering about 0.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD36118, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36118 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Higher Hills Farm Inert Landfill |
| Address | Burnedge Lane,Grasscroft,Oldham,Lancashire |
| Site operator | Moore P |
| Licence holder | Moore P |
| Licence issued | 24 December 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 July 2022 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Gtr Mancs Mersey and Ches |
| Grid reference | 397720, 405145 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land East Of Platting RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at Wall Hill MillWaste types not recorded
- Land adjacent to Wood BrookWaste types not recorded
- Land off Mossley RoadWaste types not recorded
- Quarry off Oldham RoadInert
- Manor House FarmInert
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.