Lees Moor Farm
CommercialInert
Lees Moor Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keighley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1983, covering about 6.34 hectares. Reference EAHLD03964, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03964 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lees Moor Farm |
| Address | Off Halifax Road, Keighley |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | D Parker Esquire |
| Licence issued | 27 May 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 1988 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1983 |
| Area | 6.34 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 405000, 438400 |
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
- Lees Moor Farm - Old Home ReservoirIndustrialInert
- Quarry Top Farm, Lees Moor QuarryCommercial
- Lees Moor QuarryLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Area to South of track to abandoned Haworth Sewage WorksCommercialInert
- Land at Vale MillIndustrialCommercialInert
- Bogthorn QuarryCommercialInert
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.