Woodside Quarry
CommercialInert
Woodside Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Pudsey. It received commercial and inert waste between 1979 and 1990, covering about 22.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD03603, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD03603 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Woodside Quarry |
| Address | Ring Road, Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Park Pit Landfill Limited |
| Licence holder | A R Briggs and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 June 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 August 2004 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 20 March 1990 |
| Area | 22.14 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 425500, 438300 |
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
- Woodside QuarriesCommercialInert
- Apex QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Holy Name Roman Catholic SchoolCommercialInert
- Opposite Outwood HouseIndustrialCommercialInert
- Cragside WalkLiquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercial
- Cragg Hill QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.