Green Head Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Green Head Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sowerby Bridge. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1966 and 1984, covering about 2.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD04075, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04075 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Green Head Quarry |
| Address | Moor End Road, Mount Tabor, Halifax |
| Site operator | Percy Pickard Merchants Limited ; Biffa ; Lumb ; Yorkshire Stone Company |
| Licence holder | Biffa Limited |
| Licence issued | 26 February 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1989 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1966 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1984 |
| Area | 2.73 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 405500, 427500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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
- Delf Hill QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Sunny Bank QuarryInert
- Upper BankWaste types not recorded
- Scout EdgeWaste types not recorded
- Sunny Bank QuarriesWaste types not recorded
- Brown HurstInert
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.