Landfill Check

Historic landfill sites in Pudsey

The Environment Agency records 85 historic landfill sites in and around Pudsey. covering roughly 240 hectares in total. The largest is Woodside Quarry at 22.14 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Woodside Quarry22.14 ha1990CommercialInert
Land at Benton Beck19.58 ha1993Inert
Uppermoor Quarries9.05 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Land adjacent to Leeds and Bradford Road8.57 ha—CommercialInert
Area of land in field north of Tong Hall8.55 ha1990CommercialInert
Forge Quarry8.53 ha1978IndustrialCommercialInert
Railway Cutting8.22 ha1985IndustrialCommercialInert
Tong Garden Centre7.38 ha1997Inert
Cragside Walk6.91 ha—Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
Former Sewage works6.77 ha1990SpecialIndustrialInert
Houghside STW6.32 ha1988CommercialInert
Butt Lane/Tong Road5.54 ha1968CommercialInert
Playing Fields5.39 ha—Household
Pollard Lane5.13 ha—Commercial
Park Spring Quarries5.09 ha—Waste types not recorded
26 Holme Village4.61 ha1989CommercialInert
Land Standing Adjacent to the Unmade Section of Woodhall Road4.25 ha—CommercialInert
Phoenix Park3.84 ha1990CommercialInert
GEC Foundries Limited3.73 ha1990IndustrialCommercialInert
Hall Lane3.72 ha—Waste types not recorded
Bradley Lane - Gibraltar Road3.72 ha—CommercialInert
Land Adjacent to Factory3.47 ha1993Inert
Railway Cutting3.29 ha1991IndustrialCommercialInert
Crest Poperties2.97 ha—Waste types not recorded
Whiteley Wood2.89 ha1980IndustrialCommercialInert
Rail Cutting2.73 ha1994CommercialInert
Park Side Farm2.72 ha1969Household
Tyresal Hall Farm2.66 ha1993IndustrialCommercialInert
Railway Cutting adjacent Tyersal Farm2.62 ha1991CommercialInert
Peats Farm2.49 ha—Waste types not recorded
Back Lane2.49 ha1968Household
Calverley Bridge2.41 ha1978IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Glintdale Limited2.36 ha1984IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Wellington Mills2.31 ha1984CommercialInert
Disused Railway Cutting2.24 ha—CommercialInert
Land at Fish Ponds Farm2.01 ha1988CommercialInert
Tyersal Farm2 ha1988CommercialInert
Land North of B61351.93 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pudsey Railway Cutting1.75 ha1983CommercialInert
Beulah Grange Farm1.64 ha1991CommercialInert
Tyersal Farm1.62 ha1986CommercialInert
Apex Quarry1.6 ha—Waste types not recorded
South Park Farm1.45 ha—CommercialInert
Land Adjacent to 136 Smalewell Road1.4 ha—Commercial
Quarry Gap1.4 ha—CommercialInert
Cragg Hill Quarry1.39 ha1978IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Town Street1.37 ha1987IndustrialCommercialInert
Whitehall Road1.24 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Whitehall Road1.24 ha1989CommercialInert
Mount Pleasant Farm1.2 ha1988HouseholdCommercialInert
Calverley Lane1.17 ha—Waste types not recorded
Station Street1.16 ha—Waste types not recorded
Old Quarry, Tyersal Road1.15 ha1961Inert
Calverley Gas Works Site1.13 ha1985HouseholdCommercialInert
Opposite Outwood House1.13 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Gain Lane Quarry1.08 ha—Industrial
Mount Pleasant Road and Pudsey Lowtown Station1.01 ha1974Liquid / sludgeInert
Robin Chase0.94 ha—Waste types not recorded
Woodside Quarries0.92 ha1991CommercialInert
Long Close Quarry0.88 ha—IndustrialInert
South Park Farm0.83 ha—CommercialInert
Whitehall Road0.81 ha—CommercialInert
South Park Farm0.78 ha1992CommercialInert
Troydale Lane0.74 ha—Inert
Land Adjacent to River Aire and Ross Mill Cottage0.72 ha1993CommercialInert
Mill Dams0.7 ha1963Inert
Land Adjoining Throstle Nest Cottage0.65 ha1983CommercialInert
Ravenscliffe Mills Dam0.61 ha1992CommercialInert
Old Quarry, Cemetery Road0.56 ha—Household
Turkey Hill Farm0.48 ha1991CommercialInert
Land between Netherton Pig Farm and Mushroom Farm0.47 ha1988Commercial
Roker Lane0.46 ha1986CommercialInert
Swinnow View0.45 ha1989IndustrialInert
Rail Cutting0.41 ha1983CommercialInert
Valley Road0.33 ha—Inert
Woodhall Quarry0.32 ha1984CommercialInert
Vesper Road0.31 ha—Household
New Street0.26 ha1978CommercialInert
Land Adjoining0.26 ha—Commercial
Throstle Nest Cottage0.25 ha1981Commercial
Bradford Road0.22 ha—Waste types not recorded
Tyersal Lane0.21 ha—Inert
Briggs Quarry0.2 ha—Inert
Parkfield Terrace0.17 ha—Inert
Drighlington Holder Station0.11 ha1983IndustrialCommercialInert

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 Pudsey?
85 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Pudsey 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 Pudsey?
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.