Sand Pit
HouseholdInert
Sand Pit is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Fulwood, Lancashire. It received household and inert waste between 1980 and 1984, covering about 0.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD06911, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06911 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sand Pit |
| Address | Kitchen Green, Midgery Lane, Preston, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W Jackson and Sons Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 October 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 January 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 0.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 355100, 432900 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Preston BCWaste types not recorded
- Fulwood Hall LaneHousehold
- Fulwood Hall LaneHouseholdInert
- Fulwood Hall HospitalInert
- Preston North End Training GroundIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Fulwood RowHouseholdCommercialInert
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.