Historic landfill sites in Huddersfield
The Environment Agency records 26 historic landfill sites in and around Huddersfield. covering roughly 68 hectares in total. The largest is Golf Driving Range at 14.77 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Huddersfield (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golf Driving Range | 14.77 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Berry Brow Tip Site | 6.91 ha | 1975 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Emerald Street Brick and Tile Landfill Site | 6.78 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Deighton Playing Fields | 6.25 ha | — | Household |
| Royds Hall Playing Fields | 5.79 ha | — | Household |
| Dry Clough | 5.3 ha | 1974 | CommercialInert |
| Old Fieldhouse Lane | 4.96 ha | — | Liquid / sludgeInert |
| Park Quarry | 4.15 ha | 1988 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Railway Cutting North of Deighton Station | 2.59 ha | 2000 | Inert |
| Leeds Road | 1.92 ha | 1969 | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Land adjacent to Albany Road Bridge | 1.89 ha | 1992 | CommercialInert |
| Big Valley | 1.31 ha | 1994 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Allotments | 0.85 ha | — | Household |
| Hob Lane | 0.82 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Upstream Red Doles Lock | 0.67 ha | 1992 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Ground Near Lock No.8 | 0.57 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Land West of Tinker Grayson Production Unit | 0.55 ha | 1992 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Storthes Hall Hospital | 0.47 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Upstream Red Doles Lock | 0.43 ha | — | Liquid / sludge |
| Asda | 0.42 ha | — | Industrial |
| Brown Royd Quarry | 0.21 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| NEGAS Holder Station | 0.21 ha | 1989 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Cowcliffe Hill Road | 0.17 ha | — | HouseholdInert |
| Buckden Road | 0.17 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Town Quarry | 0.1 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Big Valley Tip | 0.1 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
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 Huddersfield?
- 26 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Huddersfield 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 Huddersfield?
- 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.