Dunsdale Extension / Land North of Mount Pleasant Cottages and West of Wilton Lane
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Dunsdale Extension / Land North of Mount Pleasant Cottages and West of Wilton Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1975 and 1979, covering about 22.71 hectares. Reference EAHLD05570, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05570 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Dunsdale Extension / Land North of Mount Pleasant Cottages and West of Wilton Lane |
| Address | Near Dunsdale, Guisborough, Cleveland |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cleveland County Council |
| Licence issued | 16 December 1976 |
| Licence surrendered | 22 January 1982 |
| First waste input | 30 September 1975 |
| Last waste input | 30 June 1979 |
| Area | 22.71 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 460300, 517200 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land to the West of the Guisborough to Dunsdale Road B1269IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Carlin Howe Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Dunsdale TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Thornton Fields Farm LandfillIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Tocketts Bridge FarmInert
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.