Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road
CommercialInert
Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Batley. It received commercial and inert waste from 1984, covering about 2.92 hectares. Reference EAHLD03671, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03671 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rear Of 132 Wakefield Road |
| Address | Wakefield Road, Drighlington |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | ORA Hyman |
| Licence issued | 26 July 1984 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 2.92 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 423400, 427900 |
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
- Land Adjacent to Rushforth Quarry and Owlett HallIndustrialCommercialInert
- Rear Of 132 Wakefield RoadSpecialIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Rushforth WorksIndustrialInert
- Rushforth Quarry / Rear Of 132 Wakefield RoadInert
- Rushforth WorksCommercialInert
- Rushforth WorksCommercialInert
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.