Hebburn Quayside
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Hebburn Quayside is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hebburn. It received industrial and household waste between 1940 and 1973, covering about 17.81 hectares. Reference EAHLD06300, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06300 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Hebburn Quayside |
| Address | Hebburn New Town |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1940 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1973 |
| Area | 17.81 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 430000, 564100 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- C and J Marine ServicesInert
- King Georges FieldInert
- Mitchell StreetWaste types not recorded
- Walker Railway CuttingInert
- Waverdale AvenueInert
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.