Landfill Check

Addingham Railway Cutting

Inert

Addingham Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ilkley. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 1.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD04031, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04031
Site nameAddingham Railway Cutting
AddressAddingham, Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBanner Earthmoving
Licence issued14 November 1989
Licence surrendered4 January 1991
First waste input30 November 1989
Last waste input25 October 1990
Area1.9 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference408100, 449200

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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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.