Land Adjacent to Woolley Lane Gas Works
Inert
Land Adjacent to Woolley Lane Gas Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Glossop, Derbyshire. It received inert waste between 1993 and 1996, covering about 0.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD16601, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16601 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to Woolley Lane Gas Works |
| Address | Field numbers 3976 and 6471, Woolley Lane Gas Works, Wooley Lane, Hollingworth |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | C Bower and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 May 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 November 1993 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1996 |
| Area | 0.85 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 400300, 395900 |
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
- Carrhouse RoadWaste types not recorded
- Disused Railway LineInert
- Melandra Road Waste Disposal SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pear Tree Farm Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Hard Times FarmInert
- Woolley Bridge RoadWaste types not recorded
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.