Severn Way
CommercialInert
Severn Way is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leeds. It received commercial and inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 2.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD03688, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03688 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Severn Way |
| Address | Hunslet, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mone Brothers Civil Engineering Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 December 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 June 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 2.88 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 431700, 431500 |
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
- Knostrop DepotCommercialInert
- Curve of Roadway directly behind Severn Way Industrial EstateCommercialInert
- Land at Junction of Pepper Road/Pepper LaneCommercialInert
- Hunslet East Tip SiteWaste types not recorded
- Coghlan Bright Steel LimitedCommercialInert
- Refuse Tip off Knowsthorpe LaneHousehold
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.