Land at Durkar
CommercialInert
Land at Durkar is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wakefield. It received commercial and inert waste in 1981, covering about 0.8 hectares. Reference EAHLD03791, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03791 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land at Durkar |
| Address | Low Lane, Sandal, Wakefield |
| Site operator | Cawoods Aggregates (NE) Limited |
| Licence holder | Cawoods Aggregates (NE) Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 July 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 September 1981 |
| First waste input | 1 July 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 0.8 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 433200, 417200 |
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
- PugneysHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bicc Wire LimitedIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pugneys LandfillInert
- Briary CloseSpecialLiquid / sludgeHousehold
- Land within works complex at British Jeffrey DiamondCommercialInert
- Millfield Sand and Gravel QuarriesLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
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.