Landfill Check

Furness Road

Inert

Furness Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received inert waste in 1983, covering about 0.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD34959, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34959
Site nameFurness Road
AddressFurness Gardens, Turner Avenue South, Illingworth, Halifax
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCalderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 July 1983
Last waste input31 August 1983
Area0.77 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference407000, 427600

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.