Upper Brear Farm
Inert
Upper Brear Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1989, covering about 0.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD34889, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD34889 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Upper Brear Farm |
| Address | Bradford Road, Stump Cross, Shibden, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | F Chislet |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 January 1981 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 0.12 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 411100, 425900 |
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
- Tetrodena Pets HotelInert
- Mytholme BridgeWaste types not recorded
- Mytholme FoundryWaste types not recorded
- Dark Lane QuarryInert
- North of Field HouseWaste types not recorded
- Opposite St. Matthew's ChurchInert
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.