Greater Manchester Waste Development Authority has sold 18 former landfill sites to a firm that may seek to bring some of them back into use, including one in Stockport.
The 18 sites comprise a total of 526 acres and are also in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside and Trafford.
They have been sold to Landcare (Manchester), which specialises in redeveloping redundant brownfield sites.
The firm has expertise including environmental management, planning, renewable energy and waste management.
It said it would initially spend at least a year monitoring and managing the sites. There are no specific plans for redevelopment at present.
GMWDA chairman Coun Neil Swannick said: “The sites were a legacy from the past when the majority of waste was disposed of directly to landfill.
“As such we are delighted that Landcare, a specialist professional company with the right expertise and the opportunity to bring the sites into more beneficial use, be that through focused community engagement or in some cases redevelopment.”
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