Landfill Check

Howick Quarry

Waste types not recorded

Howick Quarry is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Alnwick, Northumberland. It received waste of unrecorded type between 1991 and 2011, covering about 1.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD35799, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD35799
Site nameHowick Quarry
AddressAlnwick, Little Houghton, Northumberland
Site operatorHowick Quarry
Licence holderTarmac Roadstone Ltd
Licence issued4 January 1991
Licence surrendered11 May 2011
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area1.77 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorth East
Grid reference423800, 617000

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

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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.