Bowes Hobson Opencast Site
Inert
Bowes Hobson Opencast Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Annfield Plain, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1980, covering about 9.27 hectares. Reference EAHLD05858, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05858 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bowes Hobson Opencast Site |
| Address | Burnopfield, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Contractors Facilities |
| Licence issued | 1 December 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | 5 September 1980 |
| First waste input | 13 September 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 August 1980 |
| Area | 9.27 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 417600, 556300 |
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
- Burnopfield Refuse Disposal TipCommercial
- Burnopfield Waste Disposal SitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Area F South of BurnopfieldWaste types not recorded
- Penshaw ViewInert
- Longfield House FarmWaste types not recorded
- East Tanfield Sewage TreatmentIndustrial
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.