Valley Road Holder Station
CommercialInert
Valley Road Holder Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bradford. It received commercial and inert waste in 1978, covering about 2.88 hectares. Reference EAHLD04001, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04001 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Valley Road Holder Station |
| Address | Canal Road, Bradford |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | North East Gas |
| Licence issued | 11 July 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 August 1980 |
| First waste input | 31 July 1978 |
| Last waste input | 18 December 1978 |
| Area | 2.88 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 416100, 434400 |
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
- CEGB Land at Canal Road Holder StationCommercialInert
- Reusable Building SuppliesIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land Adjacent To Midland RoadInert
- Midland RoadInert
- CEGB LandSpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
- West Riding Demolitions WorksInert
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.