Buying a house built on a Landfill

Jonboy_1984

Scottish library service have a tool that allows you to compare historic uk OS maps etc to the current position.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/swipe/#zoom=5.0&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=1&right=ESRIWorld

user1977

Generally the online planning portals aren't going to have scanned all the documents from that far back, you're lucky to have found the bare info about the applications. You'll need to ask whoever looks after the physical archives to see what they've got.

keiratea

Here's a few links that might be useful:

The Environment Agency has an official dataset of landfill sites, though they don't seem to provide any easy way to browse it - but here's the link for reference:

https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/17edf94f-6de3-4034-b66b-004ebd0dd010/historic-landfill-sites

Luckily there are other websites that let you view the Environment Agency landfill dataset on a map, like this one:

https://data.catchmentbasedapproach.org/datasets/theriverstrust::historic-landfill-sites/about (might be a bit slow to load)

Historic England have a neat collection of historic aerial photos:

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos/

NibblyPig

keiratea said:

Here's a few links that might be useful

Pretty cool sites! The landfill one has no information other than 'household'. No dates, no nothing! It matches the data in the first link which I interrogated manually.

I think I am out of luck unless the environmental agency replies to my e-mail which I am not holding out hope for. But appreciate the help, thank you!

jimbog

is  this in Stoke?