Yew Tree Farm
Inert
Yew Tree Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen. It received inert waste between 1995 and 1997, covering about 5.79 hectares. Reference EAHLD07562, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07562 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Yew Tree Farm |
| Address | Broken Stone Road, Livesey, Darwen, Lancashire |
| Site operator | Yew Tree Farm |
| Licence holder | Sir Alfred McAlpine - AMEC Joint Venture |
| Licence issued | 6 October 1995 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 April 2002 |
| First waste input | 1 September 1995 |
| Last waste input | 1 August 1997 |
| Area | 5.79 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Central NW |
| Grid reference | 366100, 424000 |
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
- Bunkers HillWaste types not recorded
- Stockclough Quarry LCCIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Spout House FarmInert
- Bog HeightIndustrialCommercialInert
- Star Paper MillWaste types not recorded
- Close House WoodIndustrialCommercialInert
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.