Higher Urpeth Waste Disposal Site
Inert
Higher Urpeth Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chester-le-Street, County Durham. It received inert waste in 1994, covering about 12.25 hectares. Reference EAHLD06558, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06558 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Higher Urpeth Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Higher Urpeth, Chester-le-Street, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Anglo United Plc |
| Licence issued | 31 March 1994 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 April 1994 |
| Last waste input | 29 April 1994 |
| Area | 12.25 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 424300, 554500 |
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
- High Urpeth Quarry / Landfill Site / Hargreaves Clearwaste LimitedSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Urpeth Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Sledge Hill FarmInert
- Sledge Hill Reclaimation SiteIndustrialInert
- Mount EscobWaste types not recorded
- Beamish Caravan SiteWaste 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.