Landfill Check

Chapel Lane

Inert

Chapel Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Standish. It received inert waste between 1962 and 1997, covering about 0.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD07035, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07035
Site nameChapel Lane
AddressCoppull, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMarley Buildings Limited
Licence issued11 October 1977
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1962
Last waste input31 December 1997
Area0.23 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference356600, 414100

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

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.