Landfill Check

Cabbage Hill

CommercialInert

Cabbage Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1988 and 1993, covering about 0.86 hectares. Reference EAHLD03799, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03799
Site nameCabbage Hill
AddressBarras Street, Wortley, Leeds
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderB J Skip Hire Limited
Licence issued17 April 1988
Licence surrendered19 April 1993
First waste input19 May 1988
Last waste input6 April 1993
Area0.86 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference426700, 432700

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

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.