Land to the west of the M66 motorway
Inert
Land to the west of the M66 motorway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitefield. It received inert waste from 1994, covering about 3.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD16120, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16120 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land to the west of the M66 motorway |
| Address | Bridle Road, Simister, Bury, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Costain Engineering and Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 8 August 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 November 1994 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 383200, 405300 |
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 South of Whitehouse FarmInert
- Land at Heaton ParkWaste types not recorded
- Land at Egypt LaneInert
- 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.