East Tanfield Sewage Treatment
Industrial
East Tanfield Sewage Treatment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanley, County Durham. It received industrial waste between 1991 and 1994, covering about 6.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD06188, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06188 |
|---|---|
| Site name | East Tanfield Sewage Treatment |
| Address | Tanfield Lane Farm,Tanfield, Stanley, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Northumbrian Water Limited |
| Licence issued | 7 October 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 6.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 419500, 555400 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Tanfield Lee Tip No.1Waste types not recorded
- Former Tanfield BrickworksWaste types not recorded
- Tanfield Lee TipWaste types not recorded
- Longfield House FarmWaste types not recorded
- Penshaw ViewInert
- Burnopfield Waste Disposal SitIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.