Shiregreen Lane Tip
IndustrialInert
Shiregreen Lane Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sheffield. It received industrial and inert waste from 1972, covering about 4.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD04587, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04587 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Shiregreen Lane Tip |
| Address | Shiregreen Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Sheffield Corporation Cleansing Department |
| Licence holder | City of Sheffield Metropolitan District Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 4 June 1972 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 4.58 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 437400, 391500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land North of Wensley StreetCommercialInert
- Petre StreetWaste types not recorded
- Schofield's TipWaste types not recorded
- Holywell Road Reclamation SchemeWaste types not recorded
- Holywell Road Reclamation SchemeCommercialInert
- Land off Wincobank LaneIndustrialInert
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.