Bunkers Hill, Land between M65 to North Valley Road
HouseholdInert
Bunkers Hill, Land between M65 to North Valley Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Colne, Lancashire. It received household and inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 11.15 hectares. Reference EAHLD07027, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07027 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bunkers Hill, Land between M65 to North Valley Road |
| Address | Bunkers Hill, Cross Street West, Colne, Pendle, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Pendle District Council |
| Licence holder | M J Yates Cumbrian Indusries |
| Licence issued | 1 March 1974 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 February 1989 |
| First waste input | 1 March 1988 |
| Last waste input | 27 August 1989 |
| Area | 11.15 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 387800, 439900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Coal WharfHousehold
- Barrowford Road Refuse TipCommercial
- Red ScarWaste types not recorded
- Site of Former Gas HolderInert
- Knotts LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Birchenlee FoundryIndustrialInert
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.