Landfill Check

Cookshold Lane

IndustrialInert

Cookshold Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hetton-le-Hole. It received industrial and inert waste between 1973 and 1981, covering about 1.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD05886, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05886
Site nameCookshold Lane
AddressSherburn, Durham, County Durham
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderD L George
Licence issued18 May 1977
Licence surrendered27 April 1994
First waste input31 December 1973
Last waste input31 December 1981
Area1.9 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference432300, 543000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
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.