Landfill Check

John King and Company Leeds Limited

CommercialInert

John King and Company Leeds Limited is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leeds. It received commercial and inert waste between 1920 and 1981, covering about 1.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD03690, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03690
Site nameJohn King and Company Leeds Limited
AddressGarnet Road, Leeds
Site operatorJohn King and Company Leeds Limited
Licence holderJohn King and Company Leeds Limited
Licence issued22 June 1977
Licence surrendered16 March 1981
First waste input31 December 1920
Last waste input1 February 1981
Area1.71 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference430300, 430700

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.

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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.