Landfill Check

Land at Aycliffe Farm

CommercialInert

Land at Aycliffe Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bingley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1984, covering about 2.28 hectares. Reference EAHLD03984, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03984
Site nameLand at Aycliffe Farm
AddressHarecroft, Wilsden
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr D Bottomley
Licence issued9 November 1981
Licence surrendered30 April 1994
First waste input31 December 1981
Last waste input31 December 1984
Area2.28 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference408000, 434900

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

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.