Landfill Check

Brunton Lane Piggeries

Inert

Brunton Lane Piggeries is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle upon Tyne. It received inert waste in 1979, covering about 3.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD06144, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06144
Site nameBrunton Lane Piggeries
AddressBrunton Lane, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderWilliam Leech ( Builders ) Limited
Licence issued10 July 1979
Licence surrendered31 March 1994
First waste input20 July 1979
Last waste input8 November 1979
Area3.14 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference421900, 570000

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

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.