North Carriers Dock
Inert
North Carriers Dock is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bootle. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1988, covering about 1.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD16665, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16665 |
|---|---|
| Site name | North Carriers Dock |
| Address | Sefton, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Mersey Docks and Harbour Company |
| Licence holder | Mersey Docks and Harbour Company |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1978 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1988 |
| Area | 1.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 333400, 394300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Brocklebank Graving DockWaste types not recorded
- Langton Graving DocksWaste types not recorded
- Langton Graving DocksWaste types not recorded
- Langton Branch Dock LineWaste types not recorded
- Railway Yard between Derby Road And Forth Street / Bankfield Goods YardIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Alexandra Branch Dock No.1Inert
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.