Landfill Check

Tipping of Builders Waste opposite Whaley Road

CommercialInert

Tipping of Builders Waste opposite Whaley Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnsley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1983 and 1984, covering about 4.39 hectares. Reference EAHLD04338, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD04338
Site nameTipping of Builders Waste opposite Whaley Road
AddressWhaley Road, Barugh, Barnsley
Site operatorLongden Homes
Licence holderAmco Industries Holdings Limited
Licence issued14 April 1983
Licence surrendered2 July 1984
First waste input30 April 1983
Last waste input2 July 1984
Area4.39 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference432200, 408200

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

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.