Landfill Check

Westby ( South ) L F S

IndustrialHouseholdCommercial

Westby ( South ) L F S is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1993 and 2008, covering about 11.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD35595, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35595
Site nameWestby ( South ) L F S
AddressAnna's Road, Blackpool, Westby, Lancashire
Site operatorWoods Waste Ltd
Licence holderWoods Waste Ltd
Licence issued17 September 1993
Licence surrendered20 March 2008
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area11.63 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaCentral
Grid reference335730, 431090

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.
Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Commercial:
waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.

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.