Scout Quarry
IndustrialCommercialInert
Scout Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1975 and 1982, covering about 3.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD04155, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04155 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Scout Quarry |
| Address | Pule Hill, Swalesmoor Road, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | J and J Fee Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 December 1992 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 3.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 409000, 427400 |
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.
- 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
- Swalesmoor InnIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Ringby QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Swalesmoor Road LandfillWaste types not recorded
- Swalesmoor Mink FarmSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- Moor Fall FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Reflecting Roadstuds LimitedIndustrial
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.