Birkshall Street
IndustrialInert
Birkshall Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bradford. It received industrial and inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 0.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD35451, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35451 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Birkshall Street |
| Address | Bowling, Bradford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J Hornby and Son |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 3 April 1989 |
| Area | 0.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 417900, 432500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Uppercroft MillsCommercialInert
- Bowling Back LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land at 310 Sticker LaneCommercialInert
- Fenby Avenue TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Dick LaneInert
- Laisterdyke SidingsInert
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.