Morley Holder Station
SpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Morley Holder Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received special (hazardous), industrial, household and commercial waste between 1982 and 1990, covering about 11.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD03858, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03858 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Morley Holder Station |
| Address | Morley, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 18 July 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 11.82 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 427900, 428600 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land at Dewsbury RoadCommercialInert
- Albert Road No. 1Inert
- Morley Holder StationCommercialInert
- Albert Road No. 2IndustrialInert
- Land East of A653Household
- Wide LaneLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
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.