Landfill Check

Hallas Rough Quarry, off A629

Inert

Hallas Rough Quarry, off A629 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keighley. It received inert waste between 1947 and 1990, covering about 4.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD30611, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD30611
Site nameHallas Rough Quarry, off A629
AddressHalifax Road, Near Cullingworth, Bradford, west Yorkshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderFairclough Civil Engineering Limited
Licence issued18 November 1987
Licence surrendered6 July 1990
First waste input1 January 1947
Last waste input31 December 1990
Area4.38 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference405400, 435500

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.

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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.