Stein's Tip
IndustrialCommercialInert
Stein's Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brighouse. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1880 and 1990, covering about 0.37 hectares. Reference EAHLD04098, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04098 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Stein's Tip |
| Address | Sunnyvale, Hipperholme, Brighouse, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | G R Stein Refractories Limited |
| Licence holder | G R Stein Refractories Limited |
| Licence issued | 23 August 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 February 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1880 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 0.37 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 412100, 424600 |
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.
- 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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Sunnyvale GardensCommercialInert
- Hipperholme Works - Stoney Royd Holder StationCommercialInert
- M H FabricationsWaste types not recorded
- Southedge and Stubbins TipIndustrialCommercialInert
- Broad Oak QuarryInert
- Stein Refractories LimitedInert
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.