Landfill Check

Field Head Lane

Inert

Field Head Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received inert waste in 1984, covering about 0.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD34870, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34870
Site nameField Head Lane
AddressKeighley Road, Illingworth
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderWest Yorkshire Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence issued21 March 1984
Licence surrendered31 August 1984
First waste input28 February 1984
Last waste input31 August 1984
Area0.23 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference407000, 429400

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.