Ash Lagoons, Land at Low Fields
Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Ash Lagoons, Land at Low Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1991 and 1994, covering about 4.57 hectares. Reference EAHLD04106, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04106 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ash Lagoons, Land at Low Fields |
| Address | Elland Power Station, Elland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Central Electricity Generating Board |
| Licence issued | 23 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 May 1994 |
| First waste input | 2 December 1991 |
| Last waste input | 24 March 1994 |
| Area | 4.57 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 411700, 421700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ash Lagoons, Land at Low FieldsIndustrial
- LowfieldsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Elland Power StationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Knowles TipIndustrial
- Whitwell Green LaneInert
- Marshall Hall MillsWaste types not recorded
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.