Land adjacent to 172 Wakefield Road
IndustrialCommercialInert
Land adjacent to 172 Wakefield Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1945 and 1981, covering about 0.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD03712, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03712 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land adjacent to 172 Wakefield Road |
| Address | Leeds |
| Site operator | Yorkshire Tar Distillers, later W Norbury |
| Licence holder | Hainsworth Sterne and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 February 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 July 1981 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1945 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 0.61 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 432700, 428400 |
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.
- 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
- Land Adjacent to Fat WorksIndustrialInert
- Land adjacent Norbury LimitedCommercialInert
- North of Haigh Gardens and St Georges AvenueHouseholdCommercialInert
- Link RoadInert
- Bridge End FarmInert
- Leadwell LaneIndustrial
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.