Sidings Lane
HouseholdInert
Sidings Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rainford. It received household and inert waste between 1978 and 1979, covering about 2.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD07069, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07069 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sidings Lane |
| Address | North Of Sidings Lane, West of Rainford Brook, Rainford, Lancashire |
| Site operator | St Helens Metropolital Borough Council |
| Licence holder | St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 27 June 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1979 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 2.41 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 346300, 402100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Siding Lane TipCommercial
- Lodge Lane FarmWaste types not recorded
- Randle BrookWaste types not recorded
- Rainford BrookWaste types not recorded
- Huyton's ShopInert
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.