Land East Of Platting Road
HouseholdCommercialInert
Land East Of Platting Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Mossley. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1987, covering about 3.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD15592, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15592 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land East Of Platting Road |
| Address | Lydgate, Oldham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Heginbottom Farms Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 May 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 3.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 397300, 405200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Higher Hills Farm Inert LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Land adjacent to Wood BrookWaste types not recorded
- Land at Stoneleigh RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land off Stone Breaks RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land at Wall Hill MillWaste types not recorded
- Land at Grotton HollowWaste 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.