Howdon Gas Works
Inert
Howdon Gas Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Jarrow. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1992, covering about 0.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD06072, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06072 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Howdon Gas Works |
| Address | Howdon Lane, Willington Quay, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Gas Northern |
| Licence issued | 29 August 1989 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 30 August 1989 |
| Last waste input | 22 February 1992 |
| Area | 0.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 432300, 566800 |
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
- HowdonIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Wallsend Graving DockInert
- Low FlatworthHousehold
- Low Flatworth FarmIndustrialCommercial
- Blackett Street North Land Reclamation SiteIndustrialCommercial
- Jarrow MillIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.