Landfill Check

Valley Mills

HouseholdCommercialInert

Valley Mills is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Guiseley. It received household, commercial and inert waste between 1985 and 1987, covering about 0.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD03904, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03904
Site nameValley Mills
AddressApperley Bridge, Bradford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderHugo House Limited
Licence issued11 June 1980
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input15 April 1985
Last waste input30 April 1987
Area0.59 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference418900, 437500

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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.