Pudsey Railway Cutting
CommercialInert
Pudsey Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 1.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD03664, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03664 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pudsey Railway Cutting |
| Address | Between New Street and Longfield Road, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Director of Leisure Services, Leeds City Council |
| Licence issued | 11 February 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1983 |
| First waste input | 28 February 1982 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1983 |
| Area | 1.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 422500, 433000 |
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
- New StreetCommercialInert
- Robin ChaseWaste types not recorded
- Valley RoadInert
- Station StreetWaste types not recorded
- Long Close QuarryIndustrialInert
- Mount Pleasant Road and Pudsey Lowtown StationLiquid / sludgeInert
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.