Historic landfill sites in Batley
The Environment Agency records 18 historic landfill sites in and around Batley. covering roughly 68 hectares in total. The largest is Soothill Tip at 17.57 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Batley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soothill Tip | 17.57 ha | 1968 | Waste types not recorded |
| Nab Lane Refuse Disposal Tip | 13.05 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| West End Colliery | 8.2 ha | 1977 | Industrial |
| Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road | 6.92 ha | 1989 | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Rushforth Quarry / Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road | 5.53 ha | — | Inert |
| Railway Cutting | 3.18 ha | 1988 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road | 2.92 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Land Adjacent to Rushforth Quarry and Owlett Hall | 2.92 ha | 1992 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Rushforth Works | 1.4 ha | 1989 | CommercialInert |
| Rushforth Works | 1.34 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Mr J F Calder | 1.33 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rushforth Works | 1.21 ha | 1986 | CommercialInert |
| Grange Road Railway Cutting | 0.9 ha | 1989 | Waste types not recorded |
| Bridge Street | 0.64 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Chaster Street | 0.57 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Batley Holder Station No 1 | 0.15 ha | 1992 | CommercialInert |
| Batley Holder Station No 2 | 0.12 ha | 1990 | CommercialInert |
| Nab Lane | 0.09 ha | — | Industrial |
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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Batley?
- 18 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Batley town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Batley?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.