Denton Dene
Inert
Denton Dene is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blaydon. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1991, covering about 16.24 hectares. Reference EAHLD06468, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06468 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Denton Dene |
| Address | Scotswood, Newcastle |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Balfour Beatty Construction Limited |
| Licence issued | 19 July 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 May 1991 |
| Area | 16.24 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 419600, 564400 |
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
- Denton Dene SouthInert
- Scotswood Bridge ReclamationInert
- Newburn Haugh LandfillIndustrialInert
- Denton QuarryHousehold
- Shibdon Landfill SiteInert
- Shibdon Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.