Land situated between Speke Road and Ditton Brook
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land situated between Speke Road and Ditton Brook is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Widnes, Halton. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1977 and 1988, covering about 4.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD16973, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16973 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land situated between Speke Road and Ditton Brook |
| Address | Widnes, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Cheshire County Council |
| Licence holder | Cheshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 9 November 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 4.12 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 348400, 384900 |
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.
- 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
- Land between Speke Road and Ditton BrookIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hale Road Site WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Hale RoadWaste types not recorded
- Croda ColloidsIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pickerings RoadWaste types not recorded
- Foundry LaneIndustrial
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.