Coles Cranes Limited No.1
Inert
Coles Cranes Limited No.1 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sunderland. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1984, covering about 1.72 hectares. Reference EAHLD06631, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06631 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coles Cranes Limited No.1 |
| Address | Sunderland, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Coles Cranes Limited |
| Licence holder | Coles Cranes Limited |
| Licence issued | 24 July 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1984 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 16 April 1984 |
| Area | 1.72 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 437200, 558000 |
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
- Collins FoundryWaste types not recorded
- Timber BeachIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Pallion Sports GroundWaste types not recorded
- Southwick YardWaste types not recorded
- Ford Quarry / Hylton Quarry Reclamation SiteInert
- Ford Paper Mill Phase IIIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.