Landfill Check

Salthouse Farm

SpecialInert

Salthouse Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. It received special (hazardous) and inert waste between 1971 and 1982, covering about 4.89 hectares. Reference EAHLD06902, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06902
Site nameSalthouse Farm
AddressSmithy Lane, Hardhorn Village, Lancashire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderGreaves Brothers
Licence issued1 November 1978
Licence surrendered12 February 1993
First waste input3 March 1971
Last waste input31 December 1982
Area4.89 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference335100, 437200

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.

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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.