Knotts Lane
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Knotts Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Colne, Lancashire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1965 and 1982, covering about 3.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD07106, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07106 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Knotts Lane |
| Address | Knotts Lane, Colne, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Colne Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Lancashire County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 7 September 1965 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 3.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 388500, 439100 |
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.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sansbury QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Red ScarWaste types not recorded
- Birchenlee FoundryIndustrialInert
- Site of Former Gas HolderInert
- Coal Pit MeadowIndustrial
- Gib Clough Head FarmInert
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.