Landfill Check

No. 3 Lagoon

Waste types not recorded

No. 3 Lagoon is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1962, covering about 8.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD31951, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD31951
Site nameNo. 3 Lagoon
AddressSutton, Runcorn, Cheshire
Site operatorICI Mond Division (Rocksavage Works)
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1962
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area8.06 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference352700, 379600

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.