Landfill Check

Sandy Lane Tip

Waste types not recorded

Sandy Lane Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Thornton, Lancashire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1960 and 1974, covering about 0.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD32072, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD32072
Site nameSandy Lane Tip
AddressPressall, Blackpool, Lancashire
Site operatorPreesall Urban District Council
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input30 November 1960
Last waste input16 March 1974
Area0.05 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference336200, 448000

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

Boundary map

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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.