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Historic landfill sites in Hartlepool, Hartlepool

The Environment Agency records 37 historic landfill sites in and around Hartlepool, Hartlepool. covering roughly 218 hectares in total. The largest is North Works Slag Tip at 44.7 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Hartlepool (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
North Works Slag Tip44.7 ha1980Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Coronation Drive20.11 ha1987HouseholdCommercialInert
Leathers Chemical Site17.18 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
North East of Hartlepool Power Street16.71 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Coronation Drive Land Reclamation14.45 ha—IndustrialCommercialInert
Carr House Sidings14.35 ha1993Inert
Dunes Seaton Snook11.39 ha1988Waste types not recorded
High Springwell Farm8.41 ha—IndustrialInert
Seaton Meadows Landfill7.9 ha1989IndustrialInert
Hart Mill6.89 ha—Industrial
Land at Throston Carr6.48 ha1988CommercialInert
Central/Hartlepool Dock6.25 ha1994Inert
Hart Lane Tip5.58 ha—Waste types not recorded
Disused Railway Cutting5.51 ha1990IndustrialInert
Hartlepool Dock5.03 ha1989IndustrialInert
South Works Slag Tip, Hartlepool4.61 ha1994IndustrialInert
North of Seaton Lane3.27 ha1993Waste types not recorded
Works2.97 ha—Waste types not recorded
Flying H Equestrian Centre No.1/Flying H Riding School2.54 ha1988Inert
Graythorp Tip2.23 ha1972Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Dunes Seaton Snook2.04 ha—Waste types not recorded
Old Waterworks Site1.52 ha1993IndustrialInert
Graythorp Tip1.45 ha1972IndustrialCommercialInert
Abbotsford Road Allotments1.34 ha1980CommercialInert
Vincent Street - West View Road0.83 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hart Warren Tip0.68 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
Flying H Equestrian Centre No.20.57 ha1988Inert
Land at West View Road0.43 ha—CommercialInert
Hart Reservoir0.42 ha1989Inert
Dunston Road Tip0.42 ha1972Industrial
South East of Naisberry Farm0.35 ha1978IndustrialInert
Mainsforth Terrace0.31 ha—IndustrialInert
Disused Gasholder0.18 ha1990Inert
Ex Gas Storage Station0.15 ha1986Inert
Land adjacent to Wiltshire Way0.1 ha1985Inert
Middleton Road Land Reclamation0.07 ha1977Inert
Land in Park Road0.06 ha1985CommercialInert

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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Hartlepool?
37 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Hartlepool town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
How do I check a specific address in Hartlepool?
Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.

Nearby areas

Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.