Landfill Check

Silkstone Golf Club

CommercialInert

Silkstone Golf Club is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnsley. It received commercial and inert waste in 1990, covering about 3.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD04322, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04322
Site nameSilkstone Golf Club
AddressElmhirst Lane, Dodworth, Barnsley
Site operatorA Monk, Civil Engineering Limited
Licence holderA Monk, Civil Engineering Limited
Licence issued26 February 1990
Licence surrendered2 November 1992
First waste input30 April 1990
Last waste input30 June 1990
Area3.69 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference430400, 406100

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.

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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.