Historic landfill sites in Burnley, Lancashire
The Environment Agency records 46 historic landfill sites in and around Burnley, Lancashire. covering roughly 174 hectares in total. The largest is Rowley at 34.03 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Burnley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowley | 34.03 ha | 1968 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Rowley | 33.59 ha | 1993 | HouseholdCommercialInert |
| Heasandford Tip | 14.5 ha | 1969 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Deerplay Landfill | 7.76 ha | — | Special |
| Deerplay | 7.76 ha | 1996 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Near River Calder No.2 | 5.8 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway Line | 5.73 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Barden Lane Sports Track | 5.51 ha | 1965 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Fulledge Recreation Ground | 4.88 ha | — | Inert |
| Heckenhurst Reservoir | 4.63 ha | — | Inert |
| Clifton Colliery | 3.78 ha | 1989 | Waste types not recorded |
| Railway Sidings | 3.17 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Heald Road Works | 3.07 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| River Calder Clifton area | 3.04 ha | — | Inert |
| Habergham Tip | 2.74 ha | 1987 | Inert |
| Old Hall Farm | 2.37 ha | — | Inert |
| Every Street | 2.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lockyer Avenue Playing Fields | 2.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Looe Crescent | 2.12 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lawrence Avenue | 1.79 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bancroft Road | 1.79 ha | — | Household |
| Sycamore Avenue Playing Fields | 1.67 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Westgate | 1.59 ha | 1983 | Inert |
| Sportsfield | 1.56 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Melrose Avenue | 1.52 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Dunnockshaw | 1.5 ha | 1963 | HouseholdInert |
| Healey Wood Quarry | 1.45 ha | 1971 | Household |
| Healey Wood Road | 1.4 ha | — | Inert |
| Howarth Road | 1.31 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| B G Transco, Oswald Street | 1.21 ha | 1996 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| R. Rawcliffe Limited | 1.17 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Deerplay Brickworks | 1.06 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| The Quarry | 0.9 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Burnley Sewage Treatment Works | 0.85 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Open Space Area | 0.84 ha | — | Inert |
| Clifton Colliery House | 0.7 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Gannow Lane | 0.62 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Pike Hill Farm | 0.38 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Springhill Road | 0.34 ha | — | Household |
| Foxstones Lane | 0.32 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Hollins Farm | 0.31 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Timber Hill | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Hobergham Quarry | 0.2 ha | — | Industrial |
| Bank Hall Colliery | 0.2 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Oremerod Street | 0.18 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Adamsons Farm | 0.15 ha | 1989 | Household |
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 Burnley?
- 46 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Burnley 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 Burnley?
- 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.