Gateshead Garden Festival No.2
Inert
Gateshead Garden Festival No.2 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gateshead. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1989, covering about 18.64 hectares. Reference EAHLD06219, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06219 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Gateshead Garden Festival No.2 |
| Address | Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | W and M Thopmson (Earthworks) Limited |
| Licence issued | 24 July 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 13 April 1986 |
| Last waste input | 26 January 1989 |
| Area | 18.64 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 423800, 561100 |
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
- Gateshead Garden Festival No.1Inert
- Ropery RoadWaste types not recorded
- Redheugh GasholderInert
- Redheugh GasworksInert
- Beggars WoodLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.