North of Brainwood School, Elmete Lane
CommercialInert
North of Brainwood School, Elmete Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leeds. It received commercial and inert waste between 1983 and 1984, covering about 1.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD03679, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03679 |
|---|---|
| Site name | North of Brainwood School, Elmete Lane |
| Address | Elmete Lane, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Director of Leisure Services, Leeds City Council |
| Licence issued | 25 July 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 July 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 January 1984 |
| Area | 1.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 433800, 437500 |
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
- Land Bounded by The ReinInert
- Old Quarry, Wellington HillHouseholdCommercial
- Roman AvenueInert
- Highthorne QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Elford Place, Banstead TerraceInert
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.