Landfill Check

Ossett Holder Station

CommercialInert

Ossett Holder Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ossett. It received commercial and inert waste between 1986 and 1989, covering about 0.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD03755, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03755
Site nameOssett Holder Station
AddressHealey Road, Ossett, Wakefield
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNorth East Gas
Licence issued2 January 1985
Licence surrendered2 July 1991
First waste input30 September 1986
Last waste input31 December 1989
Area0.04 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference427200, 419200

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.