River Roch Valley at Fothergill and Harvey PLC
Inert
River Roch Valley at Fothergill and Harvey PLC is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Littleborough. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1988, covering about 0.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD15655, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15655 |
|---|---|
| Site name | River Roch Valley at Fothergill and Harvey PLC |
| Address | Littleborough, Rochdale |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 7 January 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 June 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | 14 June 1988 |
| Area | 0.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 394600, 418100 |
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
- River Roch Valley at Forthergill and HarveyWaste types not recorded
- GreenvaleInert
- Sladen BridgeInert
- Denehurst FarmWaste types not recorded
- Wellfield Mill SiteIndustrialInert
- Hey Bottom FarmWaste types not recorded
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.