Lowerhouse Waste Disposal Site
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Lowerhouse Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bollington, Cheshire East. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste from 1959, covering about 3.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD17053, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17053 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lowerhouse Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Albert Road, Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Cheshire County Council |
| Licence holder | Cheshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 31 December 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 October 1959 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 392100, 378000 |
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
- Henshall RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Clough BankWaste types not recorded
- London Road - The Silk RoadWaste types not recorded
- Dunbah HollowInert
- Bolington Dredging TipWaste types not recorded
- Red Lion Car ParkIndustrialInert
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.