Landfill Check

Oakhead Caravan Park

Household

Oakhead Caravan Park is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness. It received household waste between 1980 and 1992, covering about 0.15 hectares. Reference EAHLD07709, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07709
Site nameOakhead Caravan Park
AddressAyside, Grange Over Sands, Cumbria
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderA S N Scott
Licence issued27 August 1980
Licence surrendered18 March 1993
First waste input24 June 1980
Last waste input31 December 1992
Area0.15 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern NW
Grid reference339100, 484000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.

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.