Land off Thorpe Lane
CommercialInert
Land off Thorpe Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 17.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD03716, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03716 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land off Thorpe Lane |
| Address | Tingley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Octave Four Limited |
| Licence issued | 12 December 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 May 1990 |
| First waste input | 11 January 1989 |
| Last waste input | 4 May 1990 |
| Area | 17.23 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 429600, 426600 |
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
- Octave Four LtdIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Railway cutting to East of Thorpe LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Throstle RoadCommercialInert
- Octave Four LtdWaste types not recorded
- Octave Four LtdWaste 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.