Red Quarry
Inert
Red Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Helens. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 2.7 hectares. Reference EAHLD16747, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16747 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Red Quarry |
| Address | Chester Lane, St Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Merseyside County Council |
| Licence holder | Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1996 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1983 |
| Area | 2.7 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 351900, 391900 |
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
- Chester LaneCommercialInert
- Buff QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Daisyfield Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Roughdales SidingsWaste types not recorded
- Birse Construction M62 Link RoadInert
- Sutton Manor CollieryIndustrialInert
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.