Valley Sawmills Site
CommercialInert
Valley Sawmills Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. It received commercial and inert waste between 1980 and 1982, covering about 18.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD23378, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23378 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Valley Sawmills Site |
| Address | Apedale Road, Chesterton, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Apedale Minerals Limited |
| Licence issued | 4 June 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 August 1982 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1980 |
| Last waste input | 27 August 1982 |
| Area | 18.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 382000, 349300 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Apedale Minerals LimitedIndustrialCommercial
- Springwood Road Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Springwood FarmIndustrial
- Downings MarlholeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Apedale ValleyLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Partridge Nest FarmIndustrial
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.