Landfill Check

Whitecliffe Sand And Gravel Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Whitecliffe Sand And Gravel Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ripon, North Yorkshire. It received waste of unrecorded type from 1994, covering about 3.41 hectares. Reference EAHLD35847, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35847
Site nameWhitecliffe Sand And Gravel Quarry
AddressWest Side Harrogate Road, Ripon, Whitecliffe Avenue, North Yorkshire
Site operatorH & J Atkinson
Licence holderH & J Atkinson
Licence issued24 October 1994
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area3.41 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaYorkshire
Grid reference430600, 470500

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

Boundary map

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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.