Landfill Check

Disused Railway Cutting

Inert

Disused Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1989, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD03990, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03990
Site nameDisused Railway Cutting
AddressCockin Lane - Brow Lane, Clayton, Bradford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderKeith Hartley
Licence issued4 December 1984
Licence surrendered12 October 1989
First waste input1 January 1980
Last waste input13 October 1989
Area1.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference410500, 431400

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

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.