Sycamore Cottage
Inert
Sycamore Cottage is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chester, Cheshire West and Chester. It received inert waste in 1976, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD30189, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30189 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sycamore Cottage |
| Address | Sycamore Cottage, Saighton Lane, Saighton Near Chester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A and J Hassal Transport |
| Licence issued | 29 December 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 October 1981 |
| First waste input | 13 October 1976 |
| Last waste input | 13 October 1976 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern CY |
| Grid reference | 344700, 362900 |
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
- Waverton QuarryIndustrialInert
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.