Sough Road
Inert
Sough Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste from 1960, covering about 15.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD07673, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07673 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sough Road |
| Address | Sough Road, Darwen, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Serfco Alloy and Ferrous Limited |
| Licence holder | Blackburn Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1960 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 15.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 370000, 421400 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lower Barn FarmSpecialInert
- Heightside FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Thorny Height QuarrySpecial
- Bull HillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Shaw Fold FarmInert
- Bent Hall FarmIndustrialInert
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.