Landfill Check

Moss Side Shopping Centre

IndustrialInert

Moss Side Shopping Centre is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Manchester. It received industrial and inert waste between 1994 and 1995, covering about 5.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD16588, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD16588
Site nameMoss Side Shopping Centre
AddressHulme, Manchester
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderDemolition Service Limited
Licence issued11 April 1994
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 May 1994
Last waste input5 June 1995
Area5.89 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference383500, 396000

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.