Delph Lane Tip
Inert
Delph Lane Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste between 1948 and 1979, covering about 1.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD06939, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06939 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Delph Lane Tip |
| Address | Off Romney Walk, Blackburn, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Blackburn County Borough Council |
| Licence holder | A Dennis Clark |
| Licence issued | 12 March 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 May 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 1.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 370300, 427600 |
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
- North RoadHouseholdInert
- Knuzden BrookWaste types not recorded
- Accrington RoadWaste types not recorded
- Audley QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Peronne CrescentWaste types not recorded
- Abbott CloughHousehold
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.