Landfill Check

Cleveland Industrial Estate

Inert

Cleveland Industrial Estate is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darlington, Darlington. It received inert waste in 1986, covering about 0.58 hectares. Reference EAHLD05465, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05465
Site nameCleveland Industrial Estate
AddressCleveland Street, Darlington, County Durham
Site operatorDarlington Borough Council
Licence holderH B Hunt, Darlington Borough Council
Licence issued6 February 1986
Licence surrendered23 October 1986
First waste input7 February 1986
Last waste input23 October 1986
Area0.58 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference429600, 515700

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.