Tobins
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Tobins is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newton-le-Willows. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1976 and 1977, covering about 16.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD17241, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17241 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tobins |
| Address | Alder Lane, Winwick, Warrington, Merseyside |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Industrial and Commercial Waste Disposal Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 February 1977 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1977 |
| Area | 16.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 358800, 392500 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Foot of Northern Embankment of road over Railway BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Winwick HospitalWaste types not recorded
- Warrington Rural District CouncilCommercial
- Newton BrookWaste types not recorded
- Winwick QuayWaste types not recorded
- Marbury LaneInert
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.