Thorp Arch Trading Estate
CommercialInert
Thorp Arch Trading Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. It received commercial and inert waste between 1976 and 1982, covering about 1.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD03544, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03544 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Thorp Arch Trading Estate |
| Address | Thorp Arch, Wetherby |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Kulian Investments NV |
| Licence issued | 28 January 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 February 1983 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 1.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 444500, 445700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- 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
- Chapel WoodIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- High StreetHousehold
- Firgreen QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Sandfold QuarryIndustrialHouseholdInert
- Albion StreetInert
- Old Quarry, Clifford Moor RoadHousehold
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.