Old Sewage Works
Inert
Old Sewage Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Heckmondwike. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1990, covering about 0.85 hectares. Reference EAHLD04166, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04166 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Old Sewage Works |
| Address | Off Smithies Lane, Heckmondwike |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Goxhill Tileries Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 December 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 March 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.85 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 421700, 422500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Goxhill Tileries LimitedCommercialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingCommercialInert
- Carr LaneCommercial
- Northorpe Sewage Farm Refuse TipCommercial
- Hindley RoadCommercialInert
- Pilgrim TipLiquid / sludgeCommercial
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.