Shoresclough Brook
IndustrialInert
Shoresclough Brook is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Macclesfield, Cheshire East. It received industrial and inert waste in 1986, covering about 2.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD15611, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15611 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Shoresclough Brook |
| Address | Queens Avenue, Macclesfield, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Lovaux North West Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 January 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 February 1986 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1986 |
| Area | 2.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 391900, 374700 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Shoresclough BrookIndustrialInert
- Station StreetWaste types not recorded
- Hurdsfield Industrial EstateWaste types not recorded
- Land at Disused Railway CuttingInert
- Land at Hobson HouseLiquid / sludgeInert
- Harts LaneInert
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.