ICI Lostock Works Landfill
IndustrialInert
ICI Lostock Works Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester. It received industrial and inert waste between 1903 and 1944, covering about 12.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD15612, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15612 |
|---|---|
| Site name | ICI Lostock Works Landfill |
| Address | Griffiths Park, Northwich, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | ICI Chemicals and Polymers Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1903 |
| Last waste input | 22 April 1944 |
| Area | 12.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 367800, 373700 |
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
- Griffiths ParkSpecialIndustrialInert
- Griffiths ParkLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Works Tip No 2/1Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Griffiths Road LimebedsSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Works Tip No. 2/4Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- No.4 Settling PondLiquid / sludge
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.