Land at Disused Railway Cutting
Inert
Land at Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Macclesfield, Cheshire East. It received inert waste from 1990, covering about 0.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD17079, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17079 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Disused Railway Cutting |
| Address | Macclesfield, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Fairclough Civil Engineering Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 July 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 392400, 375900 |
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
- Land at Hobson HouseLiquid / sludgeInert
- Hurdsfield Industrial EstateWaste types not recorded
- Higher Swanscoe FarmInert
- Higher Swanscoe FarmInert
- Bolington Dredging TipWaste types not recorded
- Harts LaneInert
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.