Back Lane
Inert
Back Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Silsden. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1987, covering about 0.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD04043, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04043 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Back Lane |
| Address | Addingham, Ilkley, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 25 January 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 June 1988 |
| First waste input | 23 June 1981 |
| Last waste input | 24 February 1987 |
| Area | 0.39 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 407600, 450200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Addingham Railway CuttingInert
- Gildersber FarmInert
- Gildersber FarmCommercialInert
- High Cross Bank FarmCommercialInert
- Nudge Hill FarmInert
- Middlemoor FarmWaste 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.