Landfill Check

School House

Inert

School House is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitchurch, Shropshire. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 0.11 hectares. Reference EAHLD17214, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD17214
Site nameSchool House
AddressSchool Farm, Cheshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderThe Cholmondeley Estate
Licence issued5 January 1978
Licence surrendered4 January 1992
First waste input5 January 1978
Last waste input21 May 1980
Area0.11 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaSouth NW
Grid reference355300, 350400

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

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.