Landfill Check

Whitehall Estate

CommercialInert

Whitehall Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morley. It received commercial and inert waste between 1966 and 1981, covering about 0.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD03616, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD03616
Site nameWhitehall Estate
AddressWhitehall Road, Leeds
Site operatorLeeds Fireclay Company
Licence holderThe Leeds Fireclay Company Limited
Licence issued7 March 1977
Licence surrendered25 November 1981
First waste input31 December 1966
Last waste input25 November 1981
Area0.38 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference425800, 431600

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

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.