Landfill Check

Adjacent to M65

Inert

Adjacent to M65 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brierfield, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 0.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD07387, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07387
Site nameAdjacent to M65
AddressNear Pendle Water, Brierfield, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input3 April 1978
Last waste input20 September 1980
Area0.69 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference384100, 436800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.