Landfill Check

Hougher Wall

Inert

Hougher Wall is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alsager, Cheshire East. It received inert waste in 1972, covering about 1.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD23416, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23416
Site nameHougher Wall
AddressRyehills, Audley, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 January 1972
Last waste input31 December 1972
Area1.61 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference380000, 350200

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.