Heaton Road Railway Cutting
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Heaton Road Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle upon Tyne. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1991 and 1992, covering about 0.4 hectares. Reference EAHLD06134, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06134 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Heaton Road Railway Cutting |
| Address | Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cityworks (Highways Division) |
| Licence issued | 11 October 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 11 November 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1992 |
| Area | 0.4 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 426500, 564800 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Shields RoadInert
- City StadiumWaste types not recorded
- Newington RoadWaste types not recorded
- Union RoadHousehold
- Jesmond DeneWaste types not recorded
- Walker RoadWaste 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.