Landfill Check

Star Paper Mill

Waste types not recorded

Star Paper Mill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen. It received waste of unrecorded type between 2011 and 2017, covering about 2.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD36048, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD36048
Site nameStar Paper Mill
AddressLivesey Branch Road,Feniscowles,Blackburn,Lancashire
Site operatorBlackburn Mill Ltd
Licence holderBlackburn Mill Ltd
Licence issued29 September 1977
Licence surrendered25 April 2017
First waste input19 July 2011
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area2.28 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCumbria and Lancashire
Grid reference364600, 424700

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.