Land At Copley Playing Fields
Industrial
Land At Copley Playing Fields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received industrial waste between 1995 and 2024, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD36149, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD36149 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land At Copley Playing Fields |
| Address | Copley,,Halifax,West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | BRITISH WATERWAYS |
| Licence holder | BRITISH WATERWAYS |
| Licence issued | 25 January 1995 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 August 2024 |
| First waste input | 25 January 1995 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 0.48 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Yorkshire |
| Grid reference | 408105, 422960 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land At Copley Playing FieldsIndustrial
- Butterfly FieldsWaste types not recorded
- Sterne MillsWaste types not recorded
- Milner Royd Sewage WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Standard Wire CompanyInert
- Wakefield GateWaste types not recorded
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.