Roughdales Quarry Landfill Site
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Roughdales Quarry Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Helens. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1978 and 1990, covering about 3.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD16682, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16682 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Roughdales Quarry Landfill Site |
| Address | Sutton Heath, St. Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Merseyside County Council |
| Licence holder | Merseyside County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1978 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1990 |
| Area | 3.71 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 350600, 393700 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Elm RoadWaste types not recorded
- Teapot Brick PitInert
- Ravenhead Quarry Extension Waste ManagementWaste types not recorded
- Greengate QuarryIndustrial
- Ravenhead QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Ravenhead Quarry NWDA - Waste ManagementIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.