Land at Heron Mill Lodge
Inert
Land at Heron Mill Lodge is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oldham. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1985, covering about 0.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD15544, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15544 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Heron Mill Lodge |
| Address | 254a Heron Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Courtaulds Plc |
| Licence issued | 1 October 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 February 1986 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 0.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391600, 403100 |
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 off Armitage CloseWaste types not recorded
- Land at Mill LaneWaste types not recorded
- Land at Factory FoldWaste types not recorded
- Land at Cotton Mill CrescentWaste types not recorded
- Land at Hoyle AvenueWaste types not recorded
- Land at Marsland 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.