Yorkshire Imperial Metals
Industrial
Yorkshire Imperial Metals is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Rothwell. It received industrial waste between 1977 and 2002, covering about 1.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD33050, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD33050 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Yorkshire Imperial Metals |
| Address | Haigh Park Road, Stourton, Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | IMI Yorkshire Alloys Limited |
| Licence issued | 13 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 27 September 2002 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.01 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Ridings NE |
| Grid reference | 433000, 430900 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Thwaite FarmSpecialLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Small lagoonCommercialInert
- Small LagoonCommercialInert
- Thwaite FarmWaste types not recorded
- Land At Knostrop Sewage WorksCommercialInert
- Knowsthorpe WayInert
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.