Industrial Waste Tip
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Industrial Waste Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alsager, Cheshire East. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 17.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD23466, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23466 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Industrial Waste Tip |
| Address | Apedale Road, Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Apedale Minerals Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 17.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 381300, 349500 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- South of Wood LaneWaste types not recorded
- Miry Wood QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Apedale ValleyLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Woodhouse, Farm WoodHousehold
- Miles Green FarmWaste types not recorded
- Valley Sawmills SiteCommercialInert
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.