Wistaston Effluent Treatment Works
Inert
Wistaston Effluent Treatment Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Crewe, Cheshire East. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1994, covering about 3.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD17200, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD17200 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wistaston Effluent Treatment Works |
| Address | Wistaston |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | North West Water Authority |
| Licence issued | 17 January 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 February 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 22 February 1994 |
| Area | 3.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 368200, 354500 |
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
- Wistaston Green RoadHousehold
- Site of Old Sewage Disposal WorksWaste types not recorded
- Marshfield Bank FarmSpecialInert
- Rolls Royce TipInert
- Brook FarmIndustrialInert
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.