Storeton Quarry
Inert
Storeton Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Birkenhead. It received inert waste between 1960 and 1969, covering about 1.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD16988, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16988 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Storeton Quarry |
| Address | Mount Road, Wirral, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Storeton Quarries Limited |
| Licence holder | Storeton Quarries Limited |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1969 |
| Area | 1.23 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 331500, 384300 |
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
- 14 Acres of Land at Lower FarmIndustrialHouseholdInert
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.