Knowsley Road Railway Cutting
Inert
Knowsley Road Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Helens. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1978, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD16632, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16632 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Knowsley Road Railway Cutting |
| Address | Alongside Rugby and Football Ground, Knowsley Road, St. Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Clubmoor Builders (Liverpool) Limited |
| Licence holder | Clubmoor Builders (Liverpool) Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 June 1978 |
| First waste input | 8 July 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1978 |
| Area | 0.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 349300, 395300 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Canal Street Timber YardIndustrialInert
- GreengatesWaste types not recorded
- Greengate QuarryIndustrial
- Elm RoadWaste types not recorded
- Teapot Brick PitInert
- Roughdales Quarry Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.