Landfill Check

Firgreen Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Firgreen Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wetherby. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1990 and 2012, covering about 1 hectares. Reference EAHLD35825, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35825
Site nameFirgreen Quarry
AddressBar Lane, Wetherby, Boston Spa, West Yorkshire
Site operatorFirgreen Quarry
Licence holderArcon Plant Hire
Licence issued19 March 1990
Licence surrendered14 August 2012
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaYorkshire
Grid reference443700, 444600

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.