Land off Higher Wood Street
Waste types not recorded
Land off Higher Wood Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Middleton. It received waste of unrecorded type on dates not recorded, covering about 3.65 hectares. Reference EAHLD16012, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16012 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land off Higher Wood Street |
| Address | Higher Wood Street, Middleton, Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.65 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 386700, 406500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Mellalieu Street Playing FieldsWaste types not recorded
- Mirfield DriveWaste types not recorded
- Land at Stanycliffe BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Land off Manchester Old RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Former Times MillWaste types not recorded
- Former ReservoirInert
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.