Disused Railway Cutting at Green Lane
CommercialInert
Disused Railway Cutting at Green Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Garforth. It received commercial and inert waste between 1974 and 1982, covering about 0.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD03706, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03706 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Cutting at Green Lane |
| Address | Garforth, Leeds |
| Site operator | Panelite Structures Limited |
| Licence holder | Panelite Structures Limited |
| Licence issued | 27 September 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 March 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1974 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 0.24 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 441200, 433100 |
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
- Railway Cutting to the rear of Panelite ConcreteIndustrialCommercialInert
- Stocks Bros LimitedInert
- Aberford RoadInert
- Brierlands QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- 84 Selby RoadCommercialInert
- 78 Selby RoadCommercialInert
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.