Roe Acre Mill
CommercialInert
Roe Acre Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Heywood. It received commercial and inert waste between 1972 and 1992, covering about 0.83 hectares. Reference EAHLD15793, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15793 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Roe Acre Mill |
| Address | Rochdale Road East, Heywood, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Rochdale Canal Company |
| Licence holder | Roe Acre Dye and Finishing Company Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 May 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1992 |
| Area | 0.83 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 386200, 410600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Brook BankIndustrialInert
- Mutual StreetInert
- Land South of Chadwick LaneSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Queens Park RoadInert
- Hooley BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Hooley Bridge WorksWaste 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.