Blyth Power Station
Industrial
Blyth Power Station is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blyth, Northumberland. It received industrial waste between 1993 and 2004, covering about 21.66 hectares. Reference EAHLD06424, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06424 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Blyth Power Station |
| Address | Land Adjacent To Blyth Power Station, Bedlington, Northumberland |
| Site operator | Innogy Plc |
| Licence holder | Innogy Plc |
| Licence issued | 10 November 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 July 2004 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 21.66 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 430100, 584200 |
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
- North BlythInert
- North Seaton QuarryWaste 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.