High Gate Tip
Inert
High Gate Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haslingden, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1989, covering about 1.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD15632, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15632 |
|---|---|
| Site name | High Gate Tip |
| Address | Victoria Drive, Spring Vale, Haslingden, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tarmac National Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 January 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 November 1989 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 378400, 422400 |
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
- Lane Side Playing FieldsHousehold
- South ShoreIndustrialCommercial
- Gas StreetIndustrialHousehold
- Bentwood RoadWaste types not recorded
- Holden ValeLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Pike Law QuarryWaste types not recorded
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.