Land at Meadow Street
IndustrialInert
Land at Meadow Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Great Harwood, Lancashire. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1986, covering about 1.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD06860, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06860 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Meadow Street |
| Address | Meadow Street, Near Palatine Mill, Great Harwood, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | David Melvyn Sergeant and Mr Dennis Smith |
| Licence issued | 1 December 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 6 May 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 1.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 373500, 431600 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Car Dismantlers BlickInert
- Great Harwood Railway CuttingIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- St Hubert StreetInert
- Lower Barnes StreetIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Unity TipIndustrialHousehold
- Norden TipIndustrialCommercialInert
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.