Land West of Foreshore
Inert
Land West of Foreshore is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dalton-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1979, covering about 0.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD07715, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07715 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land West of Foreshore |
| Address | Steel Street, Askam In Furness, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Barrow In Furness Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 25 August 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 September 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 0.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 320900, 477400 |
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
- Bennett Bank Stage 1SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Mouzel 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.