Golf Driving Range
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Golf Driving Range is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Huddersfield. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1984 and 1990, covering about 14.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD04176, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04176 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Golf Driving Range |
| Address | Lower Kilner Bank, off Bradley Mills Road, Huddersfield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 24 May 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1990 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 14.77 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 415300, 417300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- Brown Royd QuarryIndustrialInert
- NEGAS Holder StationIndustrialCommercialInert
- Upstream Red Doles LockLiquid / sludge
- Emerald Street Brick and Tile Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Upstream Red Doles LockLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Ground Near Lock No.8Liquid / sludge
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.