No.3 Dry Dock
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
No.3 Dry Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Salford. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1998, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD16550, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16550 |
|---|---|
| Site name | No.3 Dry Dock |
| Address | Trafford Wharf Estate, Trafford Wharf Road, Trafford Park, Manchester |
| Site operator | Manchester Ship Canal Company |
| Licence holder | Manchester Ship Canal Company |
| Licence issued | 8 July 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1999 |
| First waste input | 1 August 1982 |
| Last waste input | 20 November 1998 |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 379900, 397200 |
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
- BOCM - Silcocks LimitedInert
- Opposite Trafford Wharf Enterprise ParkWaste types not recorded
- Warfside Way - John Glibert WayWaste types not recorded
- Trafford Ecology Park and Aidleys TransportIndustrial
- Canal Side NorthWaste types not recorded
- Former Rail DepotWaste types not recorded
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.