Land off Harpurhey Road
Inert
Land off Harpurhey Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Manchester. It received inert waste from 1991, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD16396, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16396 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land off Harpurhey Road |
| Address | Harpurhey, Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Manchester City Council Planning Department |
| Licence issued | 17 May 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 385400, 401600 |
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 Bankfield StreetWaste types not recorded
- Land at Factory LaneWaste types not recorded
- Abraham Moss CentreWaste types not recorded
- Land at Moston CollegeHouseholdCommercial
- Moston BrookSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at Pike Fold LaneWaste 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.