Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Morley

The Environment Agency records 71 historic landfill sites in and around Morley. covering roughly 320 hectares in total. The largest is South Leeds Golf Course at 28.22 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Morley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
South Leeds Golf Course28.22 ha1991CommercialInert
Octave Four Ltd22.41 ha1996IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Land at Howley Park18.46 ha1992SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Land off Thorpe Lane17.23 ha1990CommercialInert
Beeston Royd15.15 ha1985SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Railway cutting to East of Thorpe Lane14.99 ha1987IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
New Howley Park Quarries14.75 ha—Inert
Morley Holder Station11.82 ha1990SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Whitehall Road10.62 ha—Inert
Westwood Tip9.77 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Stone Quarry9.65 ha—IndustrialInert
Ring Road No 29.53 ha—HouseholdInert
New Farnley Fireclay Works7.93 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Disused Railway Cutting7.68 ha1984IndustrialCommercialInert
Scotchman Lane East7.18 ha1976Industrial
Land East of A6536.34 ha1979Household
Ochre House Farm6.26 ha1984CommercialInert
Ring Road5.81 ha—Waste types not recorded
Wide Lane5.67 ha1966Liquid / sludgeCommercialInert
Land at Dewsbury Road5.09 ha1992CommercialInert
Land East of A6534.62 ha1979Household
Albert Road No. 24.59 ha—IndustrialInert
Throstle Road4.27 ha1982CommercialInert
Thorne Farm4.17 ha1985SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
E Williams3.8 ha—Waste types not recorded
Rein Road Quarry3.68 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
New Farnley Fireclay Works3.23 ha—CommercialInert
Dean Wood3.11 ha—Commercial
Octave Four Ltd3.03 ha1989CommercialInert
Hembrigg Quarry2.94 ha—Household
Dunningley Farm2.92 ha—HouseholdInert
New Farnley Fireclay Works2.84 ha1987Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Barkers Well Farm2.78 ha1989Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Ochre House Farm2.52 ha1984CommercialInert
Octave Four Ltd2.5 ha—Inert
Gilead House Farm2.37 ha1983CommercialInert
Land Adjacent to Cottingley Drive2.32 ha1982Inert
Cabbage Hill Quarry2.11 ha1989IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Gypsy Site2.06 ha1987CommercialInert
Land at Elland Road1.73 ha1988IndustrialCommercialInert
Topcliffe Grange Farm1.65 ha—Inert
Octave Four Ltd1.58 ha—Waste types not recorded
Railway Cutting1.56 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bellroyd Farm1.44 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Former Quarries, Howley Park Road1.29 ha—Waste types not recorded
Soothill Wood Quarry1.22 ha1992SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Morley High School1.16 ha—Waste types not recorded
Millshaw Beck1.07 ha—Inert
New Farnley Fireclay Works1.01 ha1992Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Octave Four Ltd0.92 ha—Waste types not recorded
Ryedale Construction Limited0.92 ha—Inert
Cabbage Hill0.91 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Blue Hill Quarry0.88 ha—Industrial
Cabbage Hill0.86 ha1993CommercialInert
Railway Cutting0.85 ha—Waste types not recorded
Cliffe Quarry0.74 ha—Inert
Disused Railway Cutting, Land at Bradford Road0.7 ha1986CommercialInert
Elland Road0.67 ha1986SpecialIndustrialInert
Stonebridge Lane - Tong Road0.67 ha1987HouseholdCommercialInert
Gillroyd Mills0.66 ha1980Inert
Howley Park Woodkirk Quarry0.64 ha1992SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Howley Park0.45 ha1986CommercialInert
Gilhead House Farm0.42 ha—Inert
Whitehall Estate0.38 ha1981CommercialInert
Site Rear St. James Church0.36 ha—Commercial
Rail Cutting0.29 ha1985CommercialInert
Disused Quarry0.26 ha—IndustrialInert
Albert Road No. 10.21 ha—Inert
Ring Road0.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Reservoir off Lawns Lane0.12 ha1987CommercialInert
Morley Holder Station0.09 ha1981CommercialInert

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 Morley?
71 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Morley 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 Morley?
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.