South Shore
IndustrialCommercial
South Shore is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Haslingden, Lancashire. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1951 and 1972, covering about 6.95 hectares. Reference EAHLD15628, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15628 |
|---|---|
| Site name | South Shore |
| Address | Charles Lane, Well Bank, Haslingden, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Haslingden Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Tarmac Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 October 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 January 1951 |
| Last waste input | 22 September 1972 |
| Area | 6.95 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 378200, 423000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bentwood RoadWaste types not recorded
- High Gate TipInert
- Sunny Field FarmInert
- Lane Side Playing FieldsHousehold
- Gas StreetIndustrialHousehold
- Holden ValeLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
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.