Land at Elk Mill Lodge
Inert
Land at Elk Mill Lodge is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chadderton. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1984, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD16006, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16006 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Elk Mill Lodge |
| Address | Broadway, Royton, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Shiloh Spinners Limited |
| Licence issued | 30 September 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 February 1986 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 0.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391100, 406800 |
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 Shiloh MillsWaste types not recorded
- Land at Mendip CloseWaste types not recorded
- Elk MillIndustrialInert
- Land at Holden Fold MillsWaste types not recorded
- Land at Clayton Playing fieldsIndustrialInert
- Land at Holden Fold MillsWaste 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.