Landfill Check

Waxman Dam

Inert

Waxman Dam is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Keighley. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1988, covering about 0.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD03983, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03983
Site nameWaxman Dam
AddressNew Mill, Denholme, Bradford
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderPennine Fibres Limited
Licence issued23 September 1981
Licence surrendered3 June 1988
First waste input22 July 1982
Last waste input30 June 1988
Area0.31 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference406700, 433600

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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.