Landfill Check

Red Beck

Inert

Red Beck is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wakefield. It received inert waste between 1993 and 2002, covering about 6.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD33053, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD33053
Site nameRed Beck
AddressDoncaster Road, Crofton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderWebfell Limited
Licence issued24 March 1992
Licence surrendered10 September 2002
First waste input18 March 1993
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area6.12 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference436200, 418700

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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.