Heaton Reservoir
Inert
Heaton Reservoir is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shipley. It received inert waste between 1990 and 1991, covering about 5.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD03968, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03968 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Heaton Reservoir |
| Address | Off Birr Road, Heaton, Bradford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Yorkshire Water Services Plc |
| Licence issued | 14 September 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 May 1992 |
| First waste input | 8 November 1990 |
| Last waste input | 20 August 1991 |
| Area | 5.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 414500, 435200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land to north of Scotchman RoadCommercialInert
- Land to north of Scotchman RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Playing FieldsHousehold
- Clockhouse Playing FieldsHousehold
- Powell RoadInert
- Weather Royd QuarriesInert
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.