Landfill Check

Thornton Road

Inert

Thornton Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shipley. It received inert waste in 1987, covering about 0.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD35419, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35419
Site nameThornton Road
AddressThornton, Bradford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderH A Shineton
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 December 1987
Last waste input31 December 1987
Area0.09 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference412100, 433000

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

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.