Octave Four Ltd
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Octave Four Ltd is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1991 and 1996, covering about 22.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD35740, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35740 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Octave Four Ltd |
| Address | Thorpe Lane, Wakefield, Tingley, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Octave Four Ltd |
| Licence holder | Octave Four Ltd |
| Licence issued | 11 May 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 January 2002 |
| First waste input | 30 June 1991 |
| Last waste input | 1 October 1996 |
| Area | 22.41 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Yorkshire |
| Grid reference | 429700, 426700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Railway cutting to East of Thorpe LaneIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
- Land off Thorpe LaneCommercialInert
- Octave Four LtdWaste types not recorded
- Octave Four LtdWaste types not recorded
- Throstle RoadCommercialInert
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.