Its triangular footprint spread from the banks of the River Wyre at Stanah in the east,[1] to Hillylaid Road in the southwest, to the southern edge of Fleetwood in the north.

[2] ICI General Chemical Divisions purchased the assets of Hillhouse and Burn Hall Works from the Ministry of Supply.

The boreholes the facility previously used resulted in the water turning brackish due to a fault line which runs between Barrow-in-Furness and the Fylde.

[4] ICI Hillhouse closed in 1992, after which the Burn Naze area, where most of the workers lived, subsequently suffered a downturn in fortunes.

[8][9] In 1999, Glasgow-based NPL Estates reached a £50 million agreement with ICI to create new housing, leisure, supermarket and shopping facilities on the Burn Naze portion of the land.