Roach Bank
Inert
Roach Bank is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bury. It received inert waste between 1991 and 2002, covering about 19.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD17959, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17959 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Roach Bank |
| Address | Off Roach Bank Road, Pilsworth, Bury, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Park Pit Landfill Limited |
| Licence holder | Park Pit Landfill Limited |
| Licence issued | 10 July 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 October 2002 |
| First waste input | 1 September 1991 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 19.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 381400, 409100 |
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
- Goshen Playing FieldsInert
- Goshen Playing FieldsIndustrialInert
- Land off Gigg LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Pilsworth Sand PitIndustrial
- Wellington RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land at White BrowWaste 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.