Upper Horley Green Farm
CommercialInert
Upper Horley Green Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Halifax. It received commercial and inert waste between 1980 and 1989, covering about 1.74 hectares. Reference EAHLD04118, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04118 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Upper Horley Green Farm |
| Address | Horley Green, Halifax |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | R Challoner |
| Licence issued | 10 May 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 June 1991 |
| First waste input | 31 March 1980 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1989 |
| Area | 1.74 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 409900, 426200 |
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
- Lower Horley Green off Horley Green LaneCommercialInert
- Claremount TipInert
- Garden Street MillsIndustrialInert
- Wilson and Haigh LimitedInert
- Old Lane Railway SidingsCommercialInert
- Amber Thorn Fireclay WorksWaste 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.