Pink Bank Lane
HouseholdCommercialInert
Pink Bank Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Droylsden. It received household, commercial and inert waste in 1981, covering about 8.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD16623, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16623 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pink Bank Lane |
| Address | East Road, Longsight, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority |
| Licence issued | 25 February 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1991 |
| First waste input | 16 February 1981 |
| Last waste input | 1 May 1981 |
| Area | 8.84 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 387600, 395400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Matthews LaneSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Mount Road Plant SiteHousehold
- Levenshulme Trading EstateSpecialIndustrial
- Preston StreetWaste types not recorded
- Stockport Branch CanalWaste types not recorded
- High BankWaste 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.