Blackett Street North Land Reclamation Site
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Blackett Street North Land Reclamation Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Jarrow. It received industrial and commercial waste between 1989 and 1992, covering about 6.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD06296, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06296 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Blackett Street North Land Reclamation Site |
| Address | Blackett Street, West of Rohm and Haas, Jarrow, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Tyne and Wear Development Corporation |
| Licence holder | Tyne and Wear Development Corporation |
| Licence issued | 2 February 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 28 February 1989 |
| Last waste input | 27 February 1992 |
| Area | 6.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 432000, 565700 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Jarrow MillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wallsend Graving DockInert
- Wagonway RoadIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Howdon Gas WorksInert
- Mercantile Dock / Dry Docks 1, 2, 3 and 4Inert
- HowdonIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.