Deep Lane
CommercialInert
Deep Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sheffield. It received commercial and inert waste in 1977, covering about 0.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD04576, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04576 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Deep Lane |
| Address | Phase 2 Improvement Scheme, Shiregreen, Sheffield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | City of Sheffield Metropolitan District Council |
| Licence issued | 17 November 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 November 1979 |
| First waste input | 17 November 1977 |
| Last waste input | 27 November 1977 |
| Area | 0.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437300, 393300 |
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
- Grange LaneLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Ecclesfield Road TipWaste types not recorded
- Butterthwaite LaneLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Loicher LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ecclesfield Refuse Disposal SiteLiquid / sludgeCommercial
- Hesley Lodge FarmCommercialInert
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.