Land to north of Scotchman Road
IndustrialCommercialInert
Land to north of Scotchman Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shipley. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1920 and 1990, covering about 2.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD03997, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03997 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land to north of Scotchman Road |
| Address | Bradford, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | City of Bradford Metropolitan Council |
| Licence issued | 21 November 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1920 |
| Last waste input | 17 January 1990 |
| Area | 2.46 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 414300, 434900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- 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 to north of Scotchman RoadCommercialInert
- Heaton ReservoirInert
- Playing FieldsHousehold
- Weather Royd QuarriesInert
- Clockhouse Playing FieldsHousehold
- West Riding Demolitions WorksInert
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.