Landfill Check

Off Heath Hill Road

CommercialInert

Off Heath Hill Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sowerby Bridge. It received commercial and inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 0.52 hectares. Reference EAHLD04135, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04135
Site nameOff Heath Hill Road
AddressHeath Hill Road, Warley, Halifax
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMr M Mallison
Licence issued14 January 1988
Licence surrendered7 February 1993
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input31 January 1989
Area0.52 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference405200, 426300

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

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.