Hopkinsons Tip
CommercialInert
Hopkinsons Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1990, covering about 3.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD04217, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04217 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hopkinsons Tip |
| Address | Halifax Road, Birchencliffe, Huddersfield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 3 June 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 3.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 411900, 418500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Hopkinson's TipIndustrialCommercialInert
- Prince RoydSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Halifax RoadCommercialInert
- Birchencliffe TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Buckden RoadCommercialInert
- The AinleysHousehold
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.