Rail Cutting
CommercialInert
Rail Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received commercial and inert waste between 1991 and 1994, covering about 2.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD05833, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05833 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rail Cutting |
| Address | Sunnybank Lane, Thornbury |
| Site operator | A Ogden and Sons |
| Licence holder | Mr David Hall |
| Licence issued | 13 June 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 30 June 1991 |
| Last waste input | 13 January 1994 |
| Area | 2.73 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 419500, 434600 |
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
- Gain Lane QuarryIndustrial
- Disused Railway CuttingCommercialInert
- Woodhall QuarryCommercialInert
- Land Standing Adjacent to the Unmade Section of Woodhall RoadCommercialInert
- Gain LaneCommercialInert
- GEC Foundries LimitedIndustrialCommercialInert
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.