Sutton Heath Quarry
IndustrialInert
Sutton Heath Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near St Helens. It received industrial and inert waste between 1977 and 1992, covering about 9.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD16710, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16710 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sutton Heath Quarry |
| Address | Eltonhead Road / Elephant Lane, St. Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Ibstock Brick Roughdales Limited |
| Licence holder | Clay Colliery Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 January 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1977 |
| Last waste input | 1 January 1992 |
| Area | 9.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 350000, 393100 |
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
- Clay CollieryInert
- Greengate QuarryIndustrial
- GreengatesWaste types not recorded
- Elm RoadWaste types not recorded
- Birse Construction M62 Link RoadInert
- Birse Construction M62 Link RoadInert
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.