Saddleworth Road - Long Causeway
Inert
Saddleworth Road - Long Causeway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sowerby Bridge. It received inert waste between 1984 and 1988, covering about 0.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD04130, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04130 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Saddleworth Road - Long Causeway |
| Address | Slack, Ripponden |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr J Clarkson |
| Licence issued | 10 February 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 May 1994 |
| First waste input | 2 November 1984 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Area | 0.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 405000, 419100 |
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
- Field off Saddleworth RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pinfold QuarryCommercialInert
- Rear of Commercial GarageIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ripponden WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Heath Lea FarmCommercialInert
- Bank House MillCommercialInert
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.