Whitchurch Bypass Site No.1
Inert
Whitchurch Bypass Site No.1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whitchurch, Shropshire. It received inert waste between 1990 and 1991, covering about 4.36 hectares. Reference EAHLD24218, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24218 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Whitchurch Bypass Site No.1 |
| Address | Whitchurch, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Birse Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 December 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 4.36 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern CY |
| Grid reference | 352600, 340900 |
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
- Bubney FarmInert
- The MeadowsIndustrial
- The VineyardInert
- Sherrymill HillIndustrial
- Whitchurch CanalHousehold
- Land South of A41 Chester RoadInert
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.