Chorley Service Reservoir
Inert
Chorley Service Reservoir is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chorley, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1989, covering about 1.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD07060, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07060 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Chorley Service Reservoir |
| Address | Crosse Hall Lane, Chorley, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | North West Water Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 June 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 January 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 4 January 1989 |
| Area | 1.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 360300, 417200 |
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
- Talbot MillIndustrialInert
- Chortex MillInert
- Former Heapey Linoleum WorksInert
- Thomas WitterIndustrialInert
- Higher House LaneInert
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.