The Brunds Sand Pit
Inert
The Brunds Sand Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alsager, Cheshire East. It received inert waste between 1959 and 1990, covering about 13.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD17199, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17199 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Brunds Sand Pit |
| Address | Talke Road, Alsager, Cheshire |
| Site operator | James Barker and Company |
| Licence holder | James Barker and Company |
| Licence issued | 14 June 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 June 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 May 1959 |
| Last waste input | 14 June 1990 |
| Area | 13.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 380400, 355400 |
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
- Alsager FactoryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Samdbach Road NorthWaste types not recorded
- Old Sand HoleLiquid / sludge
- Cherry LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Old Mall PitLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Day Green PulveriserLiquid / sludgeCommercial
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.