Star Paper Limited
Liquid / sludgeInert
Star Paper Limited is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnsley. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 1978 and 1982, covering about 0.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD04354, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04354 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Star Paper Limited |
| Address | Old Mill Lane, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Star Paper Limited |
| Licence holder | Star Paper Mills |
| Licence issued | 11 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 February 1982 |
| First waste input | 31 January 1978 |
| Last waste input | 25 February 1982 |
| Area | 0.74 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 434800, 407500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Smithy Green TipIndustrial
- Wakefield RoadIndustrialCommercial
- The Fleets DamCommercialInert
- Smithies TipWaste types not recorded
- Star Paper MillInert
- Dalestone WorksWaste 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.