Lower Barn Farm
SpecialInert
Lower Barn Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received special (hazardous) and inert waste between 1978 and 1994, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD07598, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07598 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lower Barn Farm |
| Address | Blacksnape Road, Darwen, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A L Parson Esquire |
| Licence issued | 12 December 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 March 1994 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 370700, 420900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sough RoadInert
- Bull HillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bent Hall FarmIndustrialInert
- Bent Hall FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Bent Hall FarmIndustrialInert
- Bull Hill QuarryIndustrial
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.