Coppull Old Hall Farm Tip
HouseholdCommercialInert
Coppull Old Hall Farm Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chorley, Lancashire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1964 and 1991, covering about 2.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD07475, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07475 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coppull Old Hall Farm Tip |
| Address | Site A, Coppull Hall Lane, Coppull, Chorley, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Chorley County District Council |
| Licence holder | Chorley Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1964 |
| Last waste input | 1 November 1991 |
| Area | 2.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 357600, 414000 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Coppull Old Hall FarmHouseholdInert
- Chapel LaneInert
- Birkacre Mineshaft No.1SpecialIndustrial
- Sandon HouseWaste types not recorded
- Lower BurghLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Hic Bibi LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.