Area of Land East of exsisting RSPB Visitor Centre
CommercialInert
Area of Land East of exsisting RSPB Visitor Centre is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Castleford. It received commercial and inert waste between 1990 and 1992, covering about 1.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD03727, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03727 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Area of Land East of exsisting RSPB Visitor Centre |
| Address | Fairburn Ings, Castleford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Director of Leisure Services, Leeds City Council |
| Licence issued | 22 July 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 March 1992 |
| First waste input | 17 November 1990 |
| Last waste input | 6 March 1992 |
| Area | 1.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 445200, 427700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Newton TipIndustrialInert
- Wheldale LaneCommercial
- Wheldale Fryston Colliery Reclamation / River BanInert
- East End Of WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Healdfield Brickwork QuarrySpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Old Recreation GroundInert
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.