Swan Road / Newton Common / Swan Lane
Commercial
Swan Road / Newton Common / Swan Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haydock. It received commercial waste from 1972, covering about 8.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD16626, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD16626 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Swan Road / Newton Common / Swan Lane |
| Address | St. Helens, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Newton-le-Willows Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 April 1972 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 8.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 355500, 395200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Pennington Lane FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Newton Road Flash (Pond)Inert
- Swan Road / Newton Common / Swan LaneWaste types not recorded
- Sankey BrookWaste types not recorded
- FrodshamsLiquid / sludge
- Havannah FlashWaste types not recorded
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.