Landfill Check

Spring Farm

Inert

Spring Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste between 1996 and 1998, covering about 7.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD07583, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07583
Site nameSpring Farm
AddressSchool Lane, Guide, Blackburn, Lancashire
Site operatorSpring Farm
Licence holderSir Alfred McAlpine - AMEC Joint Venture
Licence issued29 March 1996
Licence surrendered11 April 2002
First waste input1 July 1996
Last waste input1 September 1998
Area7.98 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral NW
Grid reference371000, 425700

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

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.