Landfill Check

Former Pipeworks

Inert

Former Pipeworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bacup, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1993, covering about 0.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD30534, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD30534
Site nameFormer Pipeworks
AddressOff Bacup Road, Todmorden
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderThe Chief Town Planning Officer
Licence issued25 August 1992
Licence surrendered25 April 1994
First waste input28 February 1977
Last waste input31 December 1993
Area0.19 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference389100, 424100

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

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.