Landfill Check

Lofthouse Gate Landfill

Waste types not recorded

Lofthouse Gate Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1983 and 2014, covering about 7.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD35875, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35875
Site nameLofthouse Gate Landfill
AddressPark View, Wakefield, Lofthouse Gate, West Yorkshire
Site operatorPeter Duffy Limited
Licence holderPeter Duffy Limited
Licence issued17 August 1983
Licence surrendered13 March 2014
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area7.12 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaYorkshire
Grid reference433400, 424800

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.