Rainford Road
Inert
Rainford Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Billinge. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1979, covering about 2.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD16463, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16463 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rainford Road |
| Address | Rainford Road, Billinge, St. Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | B J Wood |
| Licence holder | B J Wood |
| Licence issued | 18 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 15 April 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1979 |
| Area | 2.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 352400, 399900 |
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
- Crookhurst QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Otterswift FarmInert
- Carr Mill Refuse Disposal SiteHouseholdCommercial
- Fishing Cottage LodgeWaste types not recorded
- Carr Mill Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Kings MossCommercialInert
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.