Landfill Check

Former Mill Pond

Inert

Former Mill Pond is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brighouse. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1999, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD04117, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04117
Site nameFormer Mill Pond
AddressClifton Mills, Bailiff Br, Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderFirth Carpets Limited
Licence issued11 June 1981
Licence surrendered29 January 1999
First waste input31 December 1981
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area0.32 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference414600, 425400

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.