Ordsall Lane
Inert
Ordsall Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Salford. It received inert waste in 1992, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD15523, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15523 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ordsall Lane |
| Address | Ordsall, Salford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | City of Salford |
| Licence issued | 5 June 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 July 1992 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 381600, 397200 |
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
- Pomona Dock No 2Inert
- Pomona Dock No 1HouseholdInert
- Pomona Dock No 4IndustrialInert
- Hilti SiteWaste types not recorded
- Former Ordsall Lane SidingsInert
- Land to the West of Windsor StreetWaste 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.