Historic landfill sites in Wallsend
The Environment Agency records 20 historic landfill sites in and around Wallsend. covering roughly 100 hectares in total. The largest is Daisy Hill at 11.01 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to industrial waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Wallsend (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daisy Hill | 11.01 ha | — | Household |
| Whitley Road West | 10.33 ha | 1974 | IndustrialHousehold |
| West Allotment Reclamation | 8.73 ha | — | IndustrialCommercial |
| Waverdale Avenue | 8.03 ha | 1986 | Inert |
| Waverdale Walker | 8.03 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Willington High School | 6.61 ha | 1980 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Chicken Road No.1 | 5.68 ha | 1991 | Inert |
| Chicken Road | 5.68 ha | 1972 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Archer Street A | 5.64 ha | 1960 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Whitley Road East | 4.76 ha | 1952 | Household |
| Lightfoot Stadium | 4.55 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| West Allotment | 3.53 ha | 1978 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Archer Street B | 3.51 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Millers Dene | 3.26 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Whitley Road North | 2.87 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Coast Road | 2.41 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Trojan Avenue | 2.27 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Relton Avenue | 1.85 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Bede Crescent | 1.2 ha | — | Industrial |
| Mitchell Street | 0.25 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
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 Wallsend?
- 20 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Wallsend 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 Wallsend?
- 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.