Greenhills Moor
Inert
Greenhills Moor is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Peterlee, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1988, covering about 0.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD05900, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05900 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Greenhills Moor |
| Address | Greenhills Moor, Wingate, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tonks (Wingate) Limited |
| Licence issued | 9 July 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 1 August 1988 |
| First waste input | 9 July 1987 |
| Last waste input | 1 August 1988 |
| Area | 0.54 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 439400, 538400 |
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
- Area L WingateWaste types not recorded
- Area H South of Shotton CollIndustrial
- Glass's FarmCommercial
- Area F Wingate QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Tilery Farm WingateIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tilery Farm No.4IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.