Land East of Poolstock Lane
Inert
Land East of Poolstock Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wigan. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1990, covering about 0.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD16268, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16268 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land East of Poolstock Lane |
| Address | Off Poolstock Lane, Wigan, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S and M Homes Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 May 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 September 1995 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 357700, 404000 |
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
- CEGBIndustrialCommercialInert
- CEGBIndustrialInert
- Westwood Power StationIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- CEGBWaste types not recorded
- Ince Moss Slurry LagoonSpecialIndustrialInert
- Cemetery RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.