Landfill Check

Smithy Mills Lane - Ring Road Adel

CommercialInert

Smithy Mills Lane - Ring Road Adel is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Leeds. It received commercial and inert waste between 1990 and 1991, covering about 1.47 hectares. Reference EAHLD03606, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03606
Site nameSmithy Mills Lane - Ring Road Adel
AddressHorsforth, Leeds
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderMone Brothers Civil Engineering Limited
Licence issued8 October 1990
Licence surrendered4 February 1992
First waste input27 November 1990
Last waste input10 August 1991
Area1.47 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference427800, 438600

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.