Standard Wire Company
Inert
Standard Wire Company is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1991, covering about 1.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD04087, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04087 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Standard Wire Company |
| Address | Sterne Mills, Wakefield Road, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Longland Reclamation Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 March 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 3 May 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 August 1987 |
| Last waste input | 24 April 1991 |
| Area | 1.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 407500, 423400 |
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
- Canal MillsWaste types not recorded
- Milner Royd DepotIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Milner Royd Sewage WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Sterne MillsWaste types not recorded
- Washer Lane Industrial EstateHousehold
- Wakefield GateWaste 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.