Rotherham Road
CommercialInert
Rotherham Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnsley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 3.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD04359, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04359 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Rotherham Road |
| Address | Monk Bretton, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 13 March 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 June 1986 |
| First waste input | 13 March 1985 |
| Last waste input | 4 June 1986 |
| Area | 3.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 435600, 408100 |
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 to the rear of Nos. 16 to 26 Byron DriveCommercialInert
- Monk Bretton Recreation GroundIndustrialCommercialInert
- Wakefield RoadIndustrialCommercial
- Dalestone WorksWaste types not recorded
- Land adjacent to Wakefield RoadWaste types not recorded
- Smithy Green TipIndustrial
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.