Landfill Check

Woodman Tip

Inert

Woodman Tip is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Elland. It received inert waste between 1971 and 1976, covering about 5.68 hectares. Reference EAHLD31823, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD31823
Site nameWoodman Tip
AddressElland, Yorkshire
Site operatorMarshall (Builders Elland) Limited
Licence holderGreetland Concrete
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input1 June 1971
Last waste input30 June 1976
Area5.68 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaRidings NE
Grid reference410400, 420000

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.