Town Street
IndustrialCommercialInert
Town Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1900 and 1987, covering about 1.37 hectares. Reference EAHLD03595, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03595 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Town Street |
| Address | Rodley, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Clarke Chapman Limited |
| Licence issued | 23 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 June 1987 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1900 |
| Last waste input | 5 May 1987 |
| Area | 1.37 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 422900, 436200 |
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
- Calverley BridgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Land Adjacent to River Aire and Ross Mill CottageCommercialInert
- Glintdale LimitedIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Calverley Gas Works SiteHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pollard LaneCommercial
- Calverley LaneWaste types not recorded
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.