Drighlington Holder Station
IndustrialCommercialInert
Drighlington Holder Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 0.11 hectares. Reference EAHLD03670, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03670 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Drighlington Holder Station |
| Address | Whitehall Road, Leeds |
| Site operator | North East Gas |
| Licence holder | North East Gas |
| Licence issued | 28 April 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 May 1982 |
| Last waste input | 13 September 1983 |
| Area | 0.11 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 423400, 429800 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- Land between Netherton Pig Farm and Mushroom FarmCommercial
- Whitehall RoadCommercialInert
- Whitehall RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Whitehall RoadCommercialInert
- Former Sewage worksSpecialIndustrialInert
- Whiteley WoodIndustrialCommercialInert
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.