Landfill Check

Blast Furnace Area

Inert

Blast Furnace Area is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1987, covering about 4.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD05561, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05561
Site nameBlast Furnace Area
AddressSkinningrove
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBritish Steel Corporation
Licence issued2 November 1977
Licence surrendered21 September 1987
First waste input31 December 1980
Last waste input7 September 1987
Area4.24 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference471000, 520000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.