Landfill Check

Land at Rear of 215 Bottomboat Road

CommercialInert

Land at Rear of 215 Bottomboat Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1984, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD03743, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03743
Site nameLand at Rear of 215 Bottomboat Road
AddressCanal Lane, Stanley, Wakefield
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr J Patterson
Licence issued30 September 1983
Licence surrendered31 October 1984
First waste input31 December 1982
Last waste input31 August 1984
Area0.2 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference436100, 424800

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.