Rose Cottage Farm
HouseholdCommercialInert
Rose Cottage Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1990, covering about 5.23 hectares. Reference EAHLD03883, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03883 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rose Cottage Farm |
| Address | Leeds Road, Rothwell Haigh |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council |
| Licence issued | 7 August 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 October 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 November 1982 |
| Last waste input | 27 November 1990 |
| Area | 5.23 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 433600, 429300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- North of Haigh Gardens and St Georges AvenueHouseholdCommercialInert
- Link RoadInert
- IMI Yorkshire Alloys LimitedSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Central Motor AuctionsWaste types not recorded
- Haigh Park RoadSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Skelton Grange Power StationIndustrialInert
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.