Landfill Check

Railway Cutting to the rear of Panelite Concrete

IndustrialCommercialInert

Railway Cutting to the rear of Panelite Concrete is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Garforth. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1989 and 1992, covering about 0.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD03707, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03707
Site nameRailway Cutting to the rear of Panelite Concrete
AddressGarforth, Leeds
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderPanelite Concrete Limited
Licence issued10 October 1989
Licence surrendered14 September 1992
First waste input20 October 1989
Last waste input2 September 1992
Area0.33 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference441200, 433100

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
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.