Land to the South of Whitehouse Farm
Inert
Land to the South of Whitehouse Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitefield. It received inert waste between 1993 and 1994, covering about 4.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD16086, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16086 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land to the South of Whitehouse Farm |
| Address | Farm Lane, Simister, Bury, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Costain Engineering and Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 23 February 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 October 1993 |
| Last waste input | 25 May 1994 |
| Area | 4.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 383200, 405600 |
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 to the west of the M66 motorwayInert
- Land at Egypt LaneInert
- Land at Heaton ParkWaste types not recorded
- Bowlee Sand QuarryBluebell LaneIndustrialInert
- Land at Kelvin AvenueHousehold
- Land Off Heaton Park RoadIndustrialInert
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.