Landfill Check

Normanton Uuban District Council

Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial

Normanton Uuban District Council is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Normanton. It received liquid/sludge, household and commercial waste from 1967, covering about 4 hectares. Reference EAHLD03875, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03875
Site nameNormanton Uuban District Council
AddressNormanton, West Yorkshire
Site operatorNormanton Urban District Council
Licence holderWest Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1967
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area4 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference438000, 422100

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
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

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.