Land Adjacent to 593 Thornton Road
HouseholdCommercialInert
Land Adjacent to 593 Thornton Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bingley. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1986 and 1998, covering about 0.17 hectares. Reference EAHLD03980, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03980 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to 593 Thornton Road |
| Address | Thornton, Bradford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | S M Preservation Company |
| Licence issued | 20 May 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 June 1988 |
| First waste input | 17 October 1986 |
| Last waste input | 19 May 1998 |
| Area | 0.17 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 409000, 432700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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 At Thornton RoadWaste types not recorded
- This-l-do-me FarmInert
- Thornton QuarriesIndustrialCommercial
- Thomas Illingworth's landLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Thornton TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Naylor Myers BuildersInert
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.