Clay Lane Steelworks
Inert
Clay Lane Steelworks is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough. It received inert waste between 1985 and 1986, covering about 7.15 hectares. Reference EAHLD05603, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05603 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Clay Lane Steelworks |
| Address | Puddlers Road, Middlesbrough, Cleveland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Chief Planning Officer |
| Licence issued | 18 November 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 April 1986 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1985 |
| Last waste input | 1 April 1986 |
| Area | 7.15 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 453600, 521200 |
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
- Middlesbrough RoadInert
- Bolckow TerraceIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land at South Bank Goods DepotCommercialInert
- Old Middlesbrough RoadInert
- Cargo Fleet WharfWaste types not recorded
- Cargo Fleet Wharf AreaInert
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.