Scotchman Lane East
Industrial
Scotchman Lane East is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received industrial waste between 1955 and 1976, covering about 7.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD35105, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD35105 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Scotchman Lane East |
| Address | Morley |
| Site operator | Redland Purle Limited |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 1 July 1955 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Area | 7.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 425500, 426100 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- New Howley Park QuarriesInert
- Former Quarries, Howley Park RoadWaste types not recorded
- Land at Howley ParkSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Mr J F CalderWaste types not recorded
- Hembrigg QuarryHousehold
- West End CollieryIndustrial
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.