Former Penwortham Power Station
HouseholdCommercialInert
Former Penwortham Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Preston, Lancashire. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1986 and 1989, covering about 0.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD07536, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07536 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Former Penwortham Power Station |
| Address | East of Penwortham Golf Course, Higher Penwortham, Preston, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Morgan Credit Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 October 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 March 1990 |
| First waste input | 1 October 1986 |
| Last waste input | 1 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 352100, 429100 |
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
- Disused CanalIndustrialInert
- Corporation StreetIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land adjacent to Cop Lane Slip RoadInert
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.