Burradon
Inert
Burradon is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Longbenton. It received inert waste between 1990 and 2004, covering about 27.55 hectares. Reference EAHLD06103, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06103 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Burradon |
| Address | Burradon, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | W and M Thompson ( Earthworks ) Limited |
| Licence holder | W and M Thompson (Earthworks) Limited |
| Licence issued | 5 January 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 September 2004 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 27.55 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 427500, 572300 |
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
- Burradon Farm South QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Burradon Farm North West QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Burradon FarmLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
- Dudley First SchoolHousehold
- Mill Lane SeghillInert
- HavelockDisposal Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
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.