Calverley Gas Works Site
HouseholdCommercialInert
Calverley Gas Works Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1983 and 1985, covering about 1.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD03596, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03596 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Calverley Gas Works Site |
| Address | Caverley, Leeds |
| Site operator | Colrain Excavations |
| Licence holder | Colrain Excavations Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 March 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 February 1988 |
| First waste input | 1 April 1983 |
| Last waste input | 20 September 1985 |
| Area | 1.13 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 421900, 437000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- Calverley BridgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Town StreetIndustrialCommercialInert
- Calverley LaneWaste types not recorded
- Calverley WoodsWaste types not recorded
- Land Adjacent to River Aire and Ross Mill CottageCommercialInert
- Glintdale LimitedIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.