Fishburn Colliery Reclamation
Inert
Fishburn Colliery Reclamation is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedgefield, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1992, covering about 30.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD06185, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06185 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fishburn Colliery Reclamation |
| Address | Front Street, Fishburn, Durham, County Durham |
| Site operator | Durham County Council |
| Licence holder | Durham County Council |
| Licence issued | 5 December 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1988 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1992 |
| Area | 30.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 435900, 531700 |
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
- Fishburn CollieryInert
- Area J West of A177Waste types not recorded
- Catley Hill TrimdonWaste types not recorded
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.