Altofts Brickworks
HouseholdCommercial
Altofts Brickworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Normanton. It received household and commercial waste between 1984 and 1985, covering about 0.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD03740, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03740 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Altofts Brickworks |
| Address | Greenfield Road, Altofts |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Normanton Brick Company |
| Licence issued | 13 January 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 March 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 July 1985 |
| Area | 0.63 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437800, 422500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Normanton BrickworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Normanton Uuban District CouncilLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Building Department TipWaste types not recorded
- Land Adjacent to BSB Normanton LimitedCommercialInert
- Gravel PitsLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Welbeck QuarryLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.