Ash Lagoons, Land at Low Fields
Industrial
Ash Lagoons, Land at Low Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received industrial waste between 1959 and 1991, covering about 1.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD05845, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05845 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 11 June 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1959 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1991 |
| Area | 1.42 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 412000, 421700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Ash Lagoons, Land at Low FieldsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Elland Power StationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Calder WorksIndustrialCommercialInert
- Ash GroveInert
- Knowles TipIndustrial
- LowfieldsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.