Disused Gasholder
Inert
Disused Gasholder is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hartlepool, Hartlepool. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1990, covering about 0.18 hectares. Reference EAHLD05663, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05663 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Gasholder |
| Address | Powlett Road, Hartlepool |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Gas Plc (Northern) |
| Licence issued | 19 December 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 October 1990 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Last waste input | 29 October 1990 |
| Area | 0.18 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 450600, 534200 |
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
- Hartlepool DockIndustrialInert
- Vincent Street - West View RoadWaste types not recorded
- Old Waterworks SiteIndustrialInert
- Ex Gas Storage StationInert
- Middleton Road Land ReclamationInert
- Central/Hartlepool DockInert
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.