Land at Benton Beck
Inert
Land at Benton Beck is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1993, covering about 19.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD03790, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03790 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Benton Beck |
| Address | Bradford and Wakefield Road, Drighlington |
| Site operator | A and G Hoare |
| Licence holder | A and G Hoare |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 May 1980 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1993 |
| Area | 19.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 421500, 429100 |
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
- Land North of B6135Waste types not recorded
- Moorlands RoadWaste types not recorded
- Tong Garden CentreInert
- Tong Moor Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Whiteley WoodIndustrialCommercialInert
- Whitehall 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.