Land adjacent to the junction of Metz Bridge
CommercialInert
Land adjacent to the junction of Metz Bridge is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough. It received commercial and inert waste between 1982 and 1984, covering about 0.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD05618, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05618 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land adjacent to the junction of Metz Bridge |
| Address | Forty Foot Road, Middlesbrough |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Rail Property Board |
| Licence issued | 4 June 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 9 January 1984 |
| First waste input | 10 June 1982 |
| Last waste input | 9 January 1984 |
| Area | 0.21 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 448600, 520700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Disused GasholderInert
- Gasholder StationWaste types not recorded
- Riverside ParkIndustrialCommercialInert
- Land at Marsh Street BridgeLiquid / sludgeCommercialInert
- Snowdon RoadWaste types not recorded
- Disused Gas Holder, Snowdon 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.