Port Sunlight Factory Tip / New Chester Road Tip / Culvert Street
Liquid / sludge
Port Sunlight Factory Tip / New Chester Road Tip / Culvert Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bebington. It received liquid/sludge waste until 1986, covering about 1.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD16999, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16999 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Port Sunlight Factory Tip / New Chester Road Tip / Culvert Street |
| Address | Wirral, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Lever Brothers Limited |
| Licence holder | Lever Brothers Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1986 |
| Area | 1.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 334300, 383800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Railway Goods Yard / Dibben MeanderIndustrialInert
- Port Sunlight Factory (Bromborough Pool etc.)Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- On Par Golf ClubInert
- Dibbinsdale Brook / Bromborough PoolWaste types not recorded
- Bromborough Dock and North Reclaimation AreaHouseholdInert
- Graving Dock No.1, South Reclaimation AreaLiquid / sludge
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.