Historic landfill sites in Blackpool, Blackpool
The Environment Agency records 13 historic landfill sites in and around Blackpool, Blackpool. covering roughly 25 hectares in total. The largest is Layton Flashings at 9.5 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Blackpool (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layton Flashings | 9.5 ha | — | Inert |
| Bent Hall Farm | 3.34 ha | 1967 | IndustrialInert |
| South end of Stanley Park | 3.13 ha | 1964 | Inert |
| Warbreck High School | 2.41 ha | 1969 | Inert |
| Skidaw Road | 1.93 ha | 1967 | Inert |
| Links Road | 1.36 ha | 1978 | Household |
| Moor Park Avenue | 0.86 ha | 1991 | Waste types not recorded |
| Moor Park Baths | 0.68 ha | 1970 | HouseholdInert |
| Model Village | 0.64 ha | 1969 | HouseholdInert |
| Bispham Road | 0.23 ha | 1968 | Household |
| Land East of Park Drive No.3 | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| North Shore Golf Club - South Site | 0.15 ha | 1980 | Inert |
| North Shore Golf Club - North Site | 0.11 ha | 1988 | Inert |
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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Blackpool?
- 13 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Blackpool town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Blackpool?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.