Cliffe Quarry
Inert
Cliffe Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received inert waste between 1948 and 2006, covering about 0.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD34195, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34195 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Cliffe Quarry |
| Address | Blue Hill Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr P H Sanders |
| Licence issued | 31 October 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 August 2006 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.74 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 426300, 432700 |
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
- Blue Hill QuarryIndustrial
- Cabbage HillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cabbage Hill QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Cabbage HillCommercialInert
- Stonebridge Lane - Tong RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- New Farnley Fireclay WorksCommercialInert
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.