Boldon Lane
Inert
Boldon Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Shields. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1979, covering about 4.06 hectares. Reference EAHLD06283, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06283 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Boldon Lane |
| Address | Tilesheds Lane / Boldon Lane, South Shield, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 23 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 November 1985 |
| First waste input | 14 April 1978 |
| Last waste input | 11 July 1979 |
| Area | 4.06 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 436200, 562200 |
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
- Newton Garths ExtensionIndustrialCommercialInert
- Tileshed FarmWaste types not recorded
- New RoadWaste types not recorded
- Newton GarthsIndustrialCommercialInert
- Tileshed PiggeryWaste types not recorded
- Newton Garth BIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.