Gasholder Compound
Inert
Gasholder Compound is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Spennymoor, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1985, covering about 0.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD05913, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05913 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gasholder Compound |
| Address | Gasholder Compound, Wear Street,Spennymoor, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Gas Corporation |
| Licence issued | 25 October 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 14 February 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 October 1982 |
| Last waste input | 14 February 1985 |
| Area | 0.93 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 425800, 533600 |
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
- White Wings FarmInert
- Sours TipWaste types not recorded
- Area B South of SpennymoorWaste types not recorded
- North of Hall Heads FarmWaste types not recorded
- Hall HeadsLiquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert
- Windmill QuarryInert
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.