Land Adjacent to Fat Works
IndustrialInert
Land Adjacent to Fat Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received industrial and inert waste from 1982, covering about 1.67 hectares. Reference EAHLD03546, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03546 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land Adjacent to Fat Works |
| Address | 172 Wakefield Road, Rothwell Haigh, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Hainsworth Sterne and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 October 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 October 1982 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.67 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 432700, 428300 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land adjacent Norbury LimitedCommercialInert
- Land adjacent to 172 Wakefield RoadIndustrialCommercialInert
- North of Haigh Gardens and St Georges AvenueHouseholdCommercialInert
- Leadwell LaneIndustrial
- Bridge End FarmInert
- Link RoadInert
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.