Land adjoining Windy Bank Lane
CommercialInert
Land adjoining Windy Bank Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Cleckheaton. It received commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1993, covering about 2.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD04240, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04240 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land adjoining Windy Bank Lane |
| Address | Hightown Heights, Liversedge |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr Billy France |
| Licence issued | 26 November 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 June 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 2.88 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 417700, 423500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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 off Blake Law LaneCommercial
- Kirklees Corn MillInert
- Land at the north of F W Birkett and Sons LimitedCommercialInert
- Disused Gravel WorksLiquid / sludgeInert
- Pyenot Hall WorksIndustrial
- Land at Fall RoadCommercialInert
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.