Landfill Check

Playing Field South of Ryecroft Lane

Waste types not recorded

Playing Field South of Ryecroft Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Worsley. It received waste of unrecorded type on dates not recorded, covering about 2.5 hectares. Reference EAHLD17895, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD17895
Site namePlaying Field South of Ryecroft Lane
AddressWorsley, Manchester
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area2.5 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference374800, 399800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.