Landfill Check

Former Quarry

Inert

Former Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Penistone. It received inert waste between 1990 and 1994, covering about 0.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD04304, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04304
Site nameFormer Quarry
AddressSoughley Farm, Off Whams Road, Soughley Lane
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr J C Ellis
Licence issued10 July 1990
Licence surrendered29 April 1994
First waste input31 July 1990
Last waste input29 April 1994
Area0.1 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference419100, 402900

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.