Landfill Check

Healdfield Quarry Reclamation Site

Inert

Healdfield Quarry Reclamation Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Castleford. It received inert waste between 1993 and 1994, covering about 7.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD03718, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03718
Site nameHealdfield Quarry Reclamation Site
AddressHealdfield Road, Castleford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCity of Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence issued15 October 1993
Licence surrendered6 June 1994
First waste input27 October 1993
Last waste input30 April 1994
Area7.33 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference443900, 426000

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.