Old Ashfields
CommercialInert
Old Ashfields is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leeds. It received commercial and inert waste between 1940 and 1986, covering about 8.3 hectares. Reference EAHLD03622, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03622 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Ashfields |
| Address | Central Electricity Gernerating Board, Kirkstall Power Station, Leeds |
| Site operator | Mones Brotheers |
| Licence holder | Mone Brothers Excavations Limited |
| Licence issued | 21 April 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 March 1986 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 28 February 1986 |
| Area | 8.3 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 426400, 434800 |
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
- Kirkstall Power StationLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- The GoitHouseholdCommercialInert
- 116 Commercial Road / Kirkstall RoadWaste types not recorded
- Kirkstall Power StationLiquid / sludgeInert
- Kirkstall Holder StationCommercialInert
- Land adjacent to Leeds and Bradford 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.