Greenland Road
Industrial
Greenland Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sheffield. It received industrial waste between 1946 and 1995, covering about 1.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD04710, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04710 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Greenland Road |
| Address | Greenland, Sheffield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Aurora Plc |
| Licence issued | 27 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 March 1995 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1946 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 439200, 389000 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Avesta Tinsley Park WorksCommercialInert
- Avesta Tinsley Park WorksIndustrial
- Land off Infield LaneCommercialInert
- British Steel CorporationLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Avesta Tinsley Park WorksWaste types not recorded
- 230 Sheffield RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.