Knowles Park Playing Field
Inert
Knowles Park Playing Field is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bradford. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1986, covering about 1.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD04049, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04049 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Knowles Park Playing Field |
| Address | Original Railway Cutting, Knowles Lane, Tong Street, Bradford |
| Site operator | Bradford Metropolitan District Council |
| Licence holder | Bradford Metropolitan District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1986 |
| Area | 1.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 418400, 430600 |
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
- 602 Sticker LaneInert
- Land at New ToftshawInert
- Fenby Avenue TipIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Stead RoadInert
- Waggon House FarmCommercialInert
- Land at 310 Sticker LaneCommercialInert
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.