Landfill Check

Grindale Lane

IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Grindale Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1983 and 1987, covering about 0.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD05066, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05066
Site nameGrindale Lane
AddressBuckton
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJ Walton
Licence issued22 February 1983
Licence surrendered1 June 1989
First waste input1 June 1983
Last waste input31 December 1987
Area0.26 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference517000, 472200

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.
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

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.