Whinney Heys
Household
Whinney Heys is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. It received household waste between 1959 and 1968, covering about 31.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD07125, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07125 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Whinney Heys |
| Address | Whinney Heys Road, Marton, Staining, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Blackpool Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1968 |
| Area | 31.47 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 334000, 436100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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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.