Sankey Valley Industrial Estate
CommercialInert
Sankey Valley Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newton-le-Willows. It received commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD16660, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16660 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sankey Valley Industrial Estate |
| Address | Sankey Sugar Works, Earlstown, Sankey Valley, Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Monde Developments Limited |
| Licence holder | Monde Developments Limited |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1983 |
| Area | 0.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 357200, 394600 |
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
- Sankey ValleyWaste types not recorded
- Mucky Mountain AreaWaste types not recorded
- Deacon Trading EstateWaste types not recorded
- Park Road TipWaste types not recorded
- Spooner Vicars Landfill SiteIndustrial
- Nine Arches 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.