Pinnar Lane Quarries
CommercialInert
Pinnar Lane Quarries is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1987, covering about 3.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD04104, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04104 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pinnar Lane Quarries |
| Address | Southowram, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Binns Brothers Quarry Owners Limited |
| Licence issued | 16 July 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 December 1994 |
| First waste input | 19 October 1981 |
| Last waste input | 1 April 1987 |
| Area | 3.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 410800, 423800 |
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
- Within FieldsWaste types not recorded
- Bank Top WorksCommercialInert
- Land to the South of Cinderhills Works and East of Siddal LaneIndustrialInert
- Milking Hill QuarryCommercialInert
- Grange House QuarryIndustrial
- Marsh Lane TipHouseholdCommercial
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.