Ranks Baisin
Industrial
Ranks Baisin is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wallasey. It received industrial waste between 1979 and 1981, covering about 0.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD16821, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16821 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ranks Baisin |
| Address | West Float, Ranks Creek, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Mersey Docks and Harbour Company |
| Licence holder | Mersey Docks and Harbour Company |
| Licence issued | 7 June 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1979 |
| Last waste input | 1 August 1981 |
| Area | 0.26 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 330300, 390200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Canada Creek / Canada Basin / Canada Works / Canada Yard / Beaufort RoadIndustrialInert
- Graving Dock No.1Waste types not recorded
- Graving Dock No.2Waste types not recorded
- Flaybrick QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Bidston Steel LimitedIndustrialInert
- Oakdale RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.