Land East of A653
Household
Land East of A653 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received household waste between 1972 and 1979, covering about 6.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD03859, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03859 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land East of A653 |
| Address | Dewsbury Road, Churwell |
| Site operator | Leeds Corporation |
| Licence holder | West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 August 1972 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1979 |
| Area | 6.34 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 428600, 428200 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land East of A653Household
- Westwood TipHouseholdCommercial
- Wide LaneLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Ring RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land at Dewsbury RoadCommercialInert
- South Leeds Golf CourseCommercialInert
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.