Landfill Check

Mountheath Industrial Park

Waste types not recorded

Mountheath Industrial Park is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitefield. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1979 and 1980, covering about 1.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD16366, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD16366
Site nameMountheath Industrial Park
AddressArdent Way, Bury-Salford, Greater Manchester
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderA Lightbown
Licence issued18 March 1987
Licence surrendered31 December 1991
First waste input31 December 1979
Last waste input31 December 1980
Area1.62 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference381800, 402200

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.