Land Off Heaton Park Road
IndustrialInert
Land Off Heaton Park Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Middleton. It received industrial and inert waste between 1947 and 1986, covering about 0.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD16216, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16216 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Off Heaton Park Road |
| Address | Higher Blackley, Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Wills Fabrics Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 July 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1947 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 384400, 404600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at Kelvin AvenueHousehold
- Boothroyd TerraceIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land at Boothroyden RoadInert
- Land at Heaton ParkWaste types not recorded
- Land at Riverdale RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land at Tweedle HillWaste 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.