Landfill Check

Hollins Paper Mill

IndustrialInert

Hollins Paper Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received industrial and inert waste between 1947 and 1991, covering about 1.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD06941, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06941
Site nameHollins Paper Mill
AddressHollins Grove Street, Darwen, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderReed Paper and Board (UK) Limited
Licence issued2 May 1977
Licence surrendered1 February 1991
First waste input31 May 1947
Last waste input31 January 1991
Area1.85 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference368900, 423600

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.