Landfill Check

Broom Mill and Hummerbeck

Waste types not recorded

Broom Mill and Hummerbeck is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1980 and 2000, covering about 3.72 hectares. Reference EAHLD05934, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05934
Site nameBroom Mill and Hummerbeck
AddressSand and Gravel Quarry,Near West Auckland,County Durham
Site operatorPioneer Aggregates Limited
Licence holderPioneer Aggregates
Licence issued7 May 1980
Licence surrendered14 September 2000
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area3.72 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference419200, 525500

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

Boundary map

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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.