Sunny Bank Quarry
Inert
Sunny Bank Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sowerby Bridge. It received inert waste between 1940 and 1994, covering about 1.91 hectares. Reference EAHLD04073, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04073 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sunny Bank Quarry |
| Address | Gibb Lane, Mount Tabor, Halifax, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Gordon Smith |
| Licence issued | 1 December 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 July 2002 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1994 |
| Area | 1.91 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 405800, 427500 |
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
- Delf Hill QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Upper BankWaste types not recorded
- Sunny Bank QuarriesWaste types not recorded
- Green Head QuarryIndustrialCommercialInert
- Scout EdgeWaste types not recorded
- Brown HurstInert
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.