New Waterside Paper Mill
Inert
New Waterside Paper Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1994, covering about 0.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD07045, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07045 |
|---|---|
| Site name | New Waterside Paper Mill |
| Address | Off Johnson Road, Darwen, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | New Waterside Paper Mills Limited |
| Licence issued | 23 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 13 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 24 March 1977 |
| Last waste input | 25 March 1994 |
| Area | 0.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 370900, 423800 |
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
- Shaws Of DarwenIndustrialInert
- Shaw Fold FarmInert
- Wolstenholme Bronze PowdersIndustrialCommercialInert
- Belthorne MineshaftSpecialInert
- Spring FarmInert
- Lower Darwen Paper MillLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.