Foxholes
HouseholdCommercialInert
Foxholes is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Normanton. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1962 and 1977, covering about 12.49 hectares. Reference EAHLD03896, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03896 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Foxholes |
| Address | Off Newmarket Lane, Methley, Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Rothwell Urban District Council - Cleansing Department |
| Licence holder | West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 February 1962 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1977 |
| Area | 12.49 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437600, 425200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lock LaneCommercialInert
- Land at Rear of 215 Bottomboat RoadCommercialInert
- Rear of 215 Bottomboat LaneCommercialInert
- West Riding CollieryCommercial
- Disused Tip North of Express WayIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- A642-M62 Newmarket InterchangeInert
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.