Deepdale Tip
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Deepdale Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Preston, Lancashire. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1935 and 1972, covering about 4.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD32028, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD32028 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Deepdale Tip |
| Address | Deepdale Road, Deepdale, Preston, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Preston County Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Birse Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 August 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1935 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1972 |
| Area | 4.23 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 354800, 431300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- Chapman RoadInert
- Home Slack WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Fulwood Hall LaneHouseholdInert
- Fulwood Hall HospitalInert
- W.H. Smiths FairwaysWaste types not recorded
- Fulwood Hall LaneHousehold
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.