Landfill Check

Holden Gate Landfill Site

Waste types not recorded

Holden Gate Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bacup, Lancashire. It received waste of unrecorded type between 2007 and 2012, covering about 1.26 hectares. Reference EAHLD35824, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35824
Site nameHolden Gate Landfill Site
AddressBacup Road, Todmorden, Lancashire
Site operatorHolden Gate Landfill Site
Licence holderN & R ( Todmorden ) Ltd
Licence issued21 October 1980
Licence surrendered3 September 2012
First waste input4 April 2007
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.26 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaYorkshire
Grid reference389500, 423800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.