Landfill Check

Historic landfill EAHLD36153

IndustrialHouseholdCommercial

Historic landfill EAHLD36153 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Meltham. It received industrial, household and commercial waste in 2025, covering about 1.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD36153, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD36153
Site nameHistoric landfill EAHLD36153
AddressNot recorded
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issued16 April 2025
Licence surrendered16 April 2025
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.03 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNot recorded
Grid referenceNot recorded

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.

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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.