Land Adjacent to Cottingley Drive
Inert
Land Adjacent to Cottingley Drive is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1982, covering about 2.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD03793, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03793 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to Cottingley Drive |
| Address | Cottingley |
| Site operator | Leeds City Council |
| Licence holder | Leeds Metropolitan District Council |
| Licence issued | 20 November 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 March 1982 |
| First waste input | 26 November 1981 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1982 |
| Area | 2.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 427500, 430000 |
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
- Disused QuarryIndustrialInert
- Land at Elland RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- Elland RoadSpecialIndustrialInert
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Millshaw BeckInert
- Ryedale Construction LimitedInert
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.