Plot No 0046
CommercialInert
Plot No 0046 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. It received commercial and inert waste between 1983 and 1985, covering about 0.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD06861, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06861 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Plot No 0046 |
| Address | Waterside Farm, Pothouse Lane, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J W Proctor Esquire |
| Licence issued | 26 March 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 17 January 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 0.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 374000, 426400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Higher Duckworth Hill FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Harvey StreetHouseholdInert
- Harvey StreetHouseholdInert
- Heart LodgeInert
- Duckworth HallIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Higher Antley ReservoirInert
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.