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Lancashire
Environment

Brownfield Land, 2006 (hectares)(1)
  Vacant Derelict Land and Buildings Currently in Use Total
Previously Developed Vacant Land Derelict Land and Buildings Vacant Buildings All With Planning Allocation/ Permission Other with Known Potential All
                 
North Lancashire 152 126 53 331 96 77 173 505
Blackpool 10 0 0 10 66 10 76 86
Fylde 14 0 12 26 10 12 23 49
Lancaster(2) 8 123 37 168 19 51 70 239
Wyre 120 3 4 127 1 3 4 131
                 
Central Lancashire 174 195 35 404 42 22 64 469
Chorley 13 106 0 119 16 5 21 140
Preston 66 29 12 107 16 10 26 135
South Ribble 75 0 15 90 0 1 1 90
West Lancashire 20 60 8 88 10 6 16 104
                 
Lancashire West 326 321 88 735 138 99 237 974
                 
East Lancashire 121 165 46 332 37 84 121 452
Blackburn with Darwen 22 54 19 95 14 54 68 163
Burnley 8 17 7 32 16 1 17 50
Hyndburn 22 27 7 56 3 19 22 77
Pendle 31 11 3 45 2 4 6 50
Ribble Valley 3 0 1 4 1 2 3 7
Rossendale 35 56 9 100 1 4 5 105
                 
Lancashire County 415 432 115 962 95 119 214 1,177
Lancashire NUTS-2 447 486 134 1,067 175 183 358 1,426
                 
North West 2,560 4,970 620 8,150 1,880 1,040 2,920 11,060
England 13,330 17,850 3,670 34,850 18,430 9,450 27,880 62,730
Note (1) "Brownfield land", or previously-developed land, is land that was developed but is now vacant or derelict, and land currently in use with known potential for redevelopment, for housing or for other use.
Source DCLG - Previously-Developed Land that may be available for Development: England 2006
Archive 2004, 2005
Local Authority Household Recycling Rates, 2006/07(1)
  Total Household Recycling (tonnes) Total Household Waste Collected (tonnes) Household Recycling & Composting Rate (%)
       
Waste Collection Authorities
Burnley 10,150 32,116 31.6
Chorley 18,219 41,335 44.1
Fylde 12,559 31,393 40.0
Hyndburn 8,247 24,619 33.5
Lancaster 13,255 51,460 25.8
Pendle 10,857 34,104 31.8
Preston 14,919 52,244 28.6
Ribble Valley 4,893 22,857 21.4
Rossendale 6,985 24,829 28.1
South Ribble 17,603 40,574 44.2
West Lancashire 16,582 43,647 38.0
Wyre 19,852 49,389 40.2
       
Unitary Authorities (Both Collection and Disposal)
Blackburn with Darwen 22,563 70,593 32.0
Blackpool 18,335 67,114 27.3
       
Waste Disposal Authority
Lancashire County 226,600 584,871 38.7
England 7,976,000 25,775,000 30.9
Note (1) Figures for waste disposal authorities include all waste collected for recycling or disposal by the WDA and their constituent waste collection authorities.
Source Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) - Municipal Waste Statistics - Local Authority Data
Archive 2005/06
Municipal Waste Collection and Disposal
Fly Tipping Cases, April 2006 to March 2007(1)
  Incidents Estimated Clearance Costs Prosecutions
Total Number % Change 2004-05 to 2006-07 Undertaken Successful
           
Burnley 4,385 382% £115,443 48 34
Chorley 1,124 69% £58,423 0 0
Fylde 331 2% £20,519 0 0
Hyndburn 3,343 76% £193,304 14 14
Lancaster 3,214 -1% £174,927 0 0
Pendle 4,747 -2% £265,104 12 9
Preston 6,228 98% £309,739 0 0
Ribble Valley 644 27% £32,877 0 0
Rossendale 621 74% £29,870 0 0
South Ribble 1,264 14% £34,841 0 0
West Lancashire 2,408 59% £132,101 17 17
Wyre 2,739 -31% £32,126 0 0
           
Lancashire County 31,048 38% £1,339,274 91 74
           
Blackburn with Darwen 6,733 22% £341,908 10 9
Blackpool 9,894 110% £386,908 0 0
           
Lancashire NUTS-2 47,675 46% £2,128,090 101 83
Note (1) The DEFRA website also contains results for the previous two financial years.
Source Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

There were over 47,500 cases of reporting fly-tipping in the broader Lancashire area during the year to March 2007. This represented a substantial 45.7% increase in comparison to the position two years earlier, but the figures are not as alarming as may be suggested at first sight. Household waste represents a large proportion of reported fly tipping incidents. District Councils provide collection services for household waste from wheelie bins and recycling boxes. Most authorities also have a policy whereby household waste left out for collection in a bin bag next to a wheelie bin is not collected as part of this normal collection service and is likely to be gathered separately and classified as fly tipping. In addition, local authorities have invested significantly in providing increased services to deal with fly-tipping and have campaigned to reduce the public's tolerance of such incidents. This has raised the profile of "fly-tipping hotlines" and has encouraged members of the public to report incidents quickly. As residents have seen that reports are responded to, and fly-tipping is cleared, they have become more inclined to report smaller incidents, often only a single black bin bag, which wouldn't have been reported previously.

Gas and Electricity Consumption, 2006
  Gas Sales per Consumer (kWh) Electricity Sales per Consumer (kWh)
Domestic Industrial and Commercial Domestic Industrial and Commercial
         
North Lancashire 18,943 609,117 4,520 61,787
Blackpool 18,373 334,645 4,485 52,179
Fylde 20,735 855,210 4,745 84,835
Lancaster 18,130 738,686 4,312 55,395
Wyre 19,465 760,233 4,660 69,165
         
Central Lancashire 18,979 558,392 4,429 82,996
Chorley(1) 19,367 459,518 4,435 66,285
Preston 17,975 394,487 4,204 83,574
South Ribble 18,791 747,617 4,337 92,469
West Lancashire(1) 20,127 743,635 4,798 88,358
         
Lancashire West 19,960 585,528 4,476 71,061
         
East Lancashire 19,306 609,709 4,218 92,011
Blackburn with Darwen(1) 19,362 721,411 4,187 107,964
Burnley 18,342 466,307 3,984 74,068
Hyndburn 18,315 474,844 4,045 64,607
Pendle 18,734 478,899 4,043 79,123
Ribble Valley 21,498 789,038 5,040 121,546
Rossendale 20,934 711,210 4,372 101,020
         
Lancashire County 19,151 619,873 4,393 79,482
Lancashire NUTS-2 19,090 595,229 4,384 78,647
         
North West 18,657 658,252 4,279 96,282
Great Britain 18,241 605,218 4,457 81,876
Note (1) District contains one large industrial consumer whose consumption is not included in the data.
Source Department of Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform - Energy Trends, Regional & Local Electricity/Gas Consumption Statistics
Gas and Electricity Consumption
Road Transport Fuel Consumption, 2006 (thousands of tonnes of fuel)
  Personal(1) Freight(2) Total
       
North Lancashire 159.0 84.1 243.1
Blackpool 27.6 8.3 35.8
Fylde 38.1 16.3 54.3
Lancaster 54.4 36.5 90.8
Wyre 39.0 23.1 62.1
       
Central Lancashire 218.4 135.3 353.7
Chorley 70.2 52.5 122.7
Preston 52.7 30.2 82.9
South Ribble 52.0 29.9 81.9
West Lancashire 43.5 22.6 66.1
       
Lancashire West 377.3 219.4 596.7
       
East Lancashire 168.7 84.0 252.7
Blackburn with Darwen 35.8 17.4 53.2
Burnley 25.8 11.5 37.3
Hyndburn 33.8 18.6 52.4
Pendle 25.4 11.0 36.4
Ribble Valley 23.9 12.8 36.7
Rossendale 24.0 12.7 36.6
       
Lancashire County 482.6 277.7 760.4
Lancashire NUTS-2 546.0 303.4 849.4
       
North West 2,634.4 1,554.3 4,188.7
Great Britain 23,025.5 13,420.3 36,445.8
Notes (1) Personal travel includes buses, diesel cars, petrol cars and motorcycles.
(2) Freight includes HGVs, diesel LGVs and petrol LGVs.
Source BERR - Regional & Local Road Tranport Consumption Statistics
Road Transport Fuel Consumption
Other Fuel Consumption (i.e. Non-Gas, Non-Electricity and Non-Road Transport Fuels), 2005
  Thousand Tonnes of Oil Equivalent
Petroleum Coal Manufactured Solid Fuels Renewables and Wastes All Fuels
           
North Lancashire 63.8 2.1 0.9 3.8 70.6
Blackpool 5.6 0.0 0.0 0.5 6.2
Fylde 23.7 0.5 0.0 0.2 24.4
Lancaster 21.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 23.3
Wyre 13.5 0.7 0.0 2.5 16.7
           
Central Lancashire 85.0 4.7 1.8 1.7 93.1
Chorley 16.6 2.7 0.7 0.6 20.7
Preston 13.9 0.4 0.0 0.4 14.8
South Ribble 20.4 0.6 0.7 0.2 21.9
West Lancashire 34.1 0.9 0.4 0.5 35.8
           
Lancashire West 148.8 6.8 2.7 5.5 163.7
           
East Lancashire 117.0 75.9 1.2 24.3 218.4
Blackburn with Darwen 28.3 1.3 1.0 0.5 31.1
Burnley 13.2 0.4 0.0 0.4 14.0
Hyndburn 14.8 0.5 0.0 0.2 15.5
Pendle 19.5 0.7 0.0 0.4 20.6
Ribble Valley 28.1 71.5 0.0 22.2 121.8
Rossendale 13.2 1.6 0.0 0.7 15.5
           
Lancashire County 231.9 81.3 2.8 28.9 344.9
Lancashire NUTS-2 265.8 82.7 3.8 29.9 382.1
           
North West 2,170.3 126.3 23.5 114.9 2,434.9
Great Britain 18,029.3 3,038.8 1,220.8 2,146.4 24,435.4
Source BERR - Regional and Local Use of Non-Gas, Non-Electricity and Non-Road Transport Fuels, 2005
Other Fuel Consumption
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