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Historic landfill sites in Padiham, Lancashire

The Environment Agency records 40 historic landfill sites in and around Padiham, Lancashire. covering roughly 146 hectares in total. The largest is Enfield Road at 33.51 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Padiham (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Enfield Road33.51 ha1975IndustrialHouseholdInert
Padiham Power Station27.42 ha—IndustrialHouseholdInert
Old Barn Farm5.42 ha—SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Old Barn Farm5.42 ha—SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Lowerhouse Lodges5.19 ha—IndustrialInert
Old Barn Farm5.15 ha1989SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Rileys Farm4.99 ha—Inert
Huncoat Power Station4.52 ha1992IndustrialInert
Lowerhouse Fold4.28 ha1976IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Altham Sewage Works4.15 ha—HouseholdInert
Cornfield Farm3.89 ha1993IndustrialCommercialInert
Lowerhouse Lodges3.66 ha—Inert
Hepworths3.53 ha—Household
Lowerhouse Lodges3.46 ha1980IndustrialInert
Allotment Gardens3.37 ha—Inert
Land Adjacent Accrington Easterly By Pass3.21 ha1983Inert
Altham Business Park2.59 ha1999IndustrialCommercialInert
Whitegate Quarry2.26 ha—Waste types not recorded
Mill Hill Farm2.05 ha—Waste types not recorded
Childers Green2.03 ha—Waste types not recorded
Sabden Sewage Works1.76 ha1965HouseholdCommercial
Elizabeth Street1.59 ha—Waste types not recorded
Railway Line1.41 ha—Household
Lockyer Avenue1.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hambledon Hill1.34 ha1989Inert
Land between M65 and Railway Mollywood1.22 ha1983Inert
Lowerhouse Mill Lodges0.97 ha—Waste types not recorded
Mollywood Lane0.96 ha1982Industrial
Mullard Simonstone0.96 ha1991Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Quarry Street Tip0.91 ha—HouseholdInert
Heys Head Quarry0.91 ha1973Household
Garden Street0.43 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hapton0.38 ha1967HouseholdInert
Old Barn Farm0.26 ha1994Waste types not recorded
British Gas0.25 ha1989Inert
Hapton Colliery0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Lune Street0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Black Hill0.19 ha1963HouseholdCommercial
Whins Lane0.18 ha1975Waste types not recorded
Shaw Brook0.07 ha—Industrial

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 Padiham?
40 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Padiham 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 Padiham?
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.