Brasside Quarry
IndustrialInert
Brasside Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Durham, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1950 and 1979, covering about 3.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD05878, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05878 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Brasside Quarry |
| Address | Brasside Quarry, Finchdale Road,Low Newton, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Containerised Waste Limited |
| Licence issued | 1 August 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 25 April 1996 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1950 |
| Last waste input | 11 May 1979 |
| Area | 3.71 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 428700, 545900 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Brasside TipCommercial
- Low Newton Disused Railway JunInert
- Union Hall FarmInert
- Belmont Sewage Treatment WorksInert
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.