Ince A Power Station
Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Ince A Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester. It received liquid/sludge and industrial waste between 1977 and 1982, covering about 0.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD17076, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17076 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ince A Power Station |
| Address | Ash Road, Ince, Chester, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 12 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 May 1982 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 10 May 1982 |
| Area | 0.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 346300, 376000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Ince A Power Station / TipLiquid / sludge
- Ince Power StationLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Marsh LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Kemira Growhow Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Ince Power StationWaste types not recorded
- Lower Robin Hood LaneIndustrialInert
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.