Business Premises off Midland Road
CommercialInert
Business Premises off Midland Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Royston. It received commercial and inert waste between 1984 and 1986, covering about 0.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD04915, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04915 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Business Premises off Midland Road |
| Address | Royston, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Burns Construction Limited |
| Licence holder | Burns Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 June 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 December 1986 |
| First waste input | 11 June 1984 |
| Last waste input | 22 December 1986 |
| Area | 0.67 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437100, 411700 |
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
- Land off Midland RoadCommercialInert
- Poplar TerraceWaste types not recorded
- Poplar TerraceLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land Off Cross LaneHousehold
- Royston Refuse TipCommercial
- Warren WalkWaste 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.