Landfill Check

Land adjacent to Cop Lane Slip Road

Inert

Land adjacent to Cop Lane Slip Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Preston, Lancashire. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1985, covering about 0.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD07054, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07054
Site nameLand adjacent to Cop Lane Slip Road
AddressCop Lane, Penwortham, Preston, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderSir Alfred McAlpine and Sons Northern Limited
Licence issued12 June 1984
Licence surrendered1 May 1985
First waste input31 July 1984
Last waste input31 December 1985
Area0.24 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference352200, 427300

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.