British Gas Holder Station
Inert
British Gas Holder Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste in 1988, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD07575, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07575 |
|---|---|
| Site name | British Gas Holder Station |
| Address | Wensley Road, Blackburn, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Gas North Western |
| Licence issued | 30 June 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 30 June 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1988 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 367300, 427700 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Gillibrand RubberIndustrial
- Billinge End SchoolWaste types not recorded
- Nash Playing FieldsInert
- St Frances Road Playing FieldsWaste types not recorded
- Park Lee RoadInert
- Bennington Street/Pringle StreetWaste types not recorded
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.