Recreational Ground
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Recreational Ground is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cheadle Hulme. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1986 and 1988, covering about 5.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD16885, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16885 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Recreational Ground |
| Address | Alvanley Crescent, Bridgehall Estate, Stockport |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Simon Engineering Plc |
| Licence issued | 9 July 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 March 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1988 |
| Area | 5.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 388300, 388300 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- P.D. Beatwaste LimitedIndustrial
- Stockholm RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Off Councillor LaneSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Hazelgrove and BramhallCommercialInert
- Adswood Road Civic Amenity SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tenement Lane TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.