V H E Construction Plc - Former Cortonwood Colliery
IndustrialInert
V H E Construction Plc - Former Cortonwood Colliery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wombwell. It received industrial and inert waste between 1992 and 2004, covering about 74.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD33020, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD33020 |
|---|---|
| Site name | V H E Construction Plc - Former Cortonwood Colliery |
| Address | Cortonwood Reclamation Scheme, Knollbeck Lane, Brampton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire |
| Site operator | V H E (Construction) Plc |
| Licence holder | V H E (Construction) Plc |
| Licence issued | 21 December 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 February 2004 |
| First waste input | 21 December 1992 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 74.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 440700, 401200 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Lundhill TavernWaste types not recorded
- Lundhill RoadLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Brampton RoadWaste types not recorded
- Packman RoadHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land Off Wath RoadHouseholdCommercial
- Land to East of A633 Road adjacent to Knoll BeckCommercialInert
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.