Land North of Wensley Street
CommercialInert
Land North of Wensley Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sheffield. It received commercial and inert waste between 1979 and 1984, covering about 12.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD04588, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04588 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land North of Wensley Street |
| Address | Sheffield |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | City of Sheffield Metropolitan District Council |
| Licence issued | 19 September 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 12.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437300, 390800 |
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
- Land off Wincobank LaneIndustrialInert
- Shiregreen Lane TipIndustrialInert
- Holywell Road Reclamation SchemeWaste types not recorded
- Holywell Road Reclamation SchemeCommercialInert
- Land between Petre Street and Boulding Industrial SuppliesCommercialInert
- Petre StreetWaste 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.