West Road
CommercialInert
West Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Barnsley. It received commercial and inert waste in 1987, covering about 0.45 hectares. Reference EAHLD04328, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04328 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West Road |
| Address | Pogmoor, Barnsley |
| Site operator | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | A F Budge |
| Licence issued | 15 July 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1990 |
| First waste input | 15 July 1987 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 0.45 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 433100, 406400 |
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
- Land West of Summer Lane DairyIndustrialCommercialInert
- Allotment GardensWaste types not recorded
- Land North of Dodworth RoadWaste types not recorded
- Recreation GroundWaste types not recorded
- S.R. GentsWaste types not recorded
- Quarry at Higher Spring Head FarmCommercialInert
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.