Elland Road Gas Works
IndustrialInert
Elland Road Gas Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received industrial and inert waste in 1976, covering about 1.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD34916, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34916 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Elland Road Gas Works |
| Address | Gas Works Lane, Elland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | N E Gas |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 January 1976 |
| Last waste input | 20 August 1976 |
| Area | 1.67 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 410900, 421500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Marshall Hall MillsWaste types not recorded
- LowfieldsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ash Lagoons, Land at Low FieldsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Whitwell Green LaneInert
- Ash Lagoons, Land at Low FieldsIndustrial
- Woodside LockWaste types not recorded
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.