Shay Lane
CommercialInert
Shay Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received commercial and inert waste between 1980 and 1991, covering about 0.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD04115, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04115 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Shay Lane |
| Address | Holmfield, Ovendon, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | H Baxendale and Sons Builders Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 June 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 12 November 1992 |
| First waste input | 20 October 1980 |
| Last waste input | 28 June 1991 |
| Area | 0.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 408300, 427900 |
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
- Beechwood MillsWaste types not recorded
- Eastwoods Tip South Quarry No.1Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- EastwoodLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Eastwoods Tip NorthLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingCommercialInert
- Disused Railway CuttingWaste types not recorded
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.