Wincham Lane Land Reclamation
Inert
Wincham Lane Land Reclamation is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester. It received inert waste between 1991 and 1992, covering about 14.35 hectares. Reference EAHLD17085, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17085 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wincham Lane Land Reclamation |
| Address | Wincham Lane, Cheshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cheshire County Council |
| Licence issued | 8 August 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 14.35 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 368000, 375000 |
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
- Cross StreetInert
- Ollershaw LaneIndustrial
- Neumanns FlashLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- No.4 Settling PondLiquid / sludge
- Griffiths ParkSpecialIndustrialInert
- Works Tip No. 2/4Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.