Landfill Check

Shelf Mill Dams

Inert

Shelf Mill Dams is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received inert waste between 1993 and 1994, covering about 0.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD34945, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD34945
Site nameShelf Mill Dams
AddressAdjacent to 30 Wadehouse Road, Shelf
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderR S Luty
Licence issued29 May 1992
Licence surrendered3 May 1994
First waste input1 February 1993
Last waste input24 January 1994
Area0.18 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference412200, 428600

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

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.