Wakefield Road - Brookfield Farm
CommercialInert
Wakefield Road - Brookfield Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Garforth. It received commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1990, covering about 1.76 hectares. Reference EAHLD03701, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03701 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Wakefield Road - Brookfield Farm |
| Address | Garforth Bridge, Swillington, Leeds |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | John Wilson |
| Licence issued | 23 October 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 June 1990 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.76 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 439300, 432600 |
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
- 84 Selby RoadCommercialInert
- 78 Selby RoadCommercialInert
- Railway Cutting to the rear of Panelite ConcreteIndustrialCommercialInert
- Disused Railway Cutting at Green LaneCommercialInert
- Stocks Bros LimitedInert
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.