Land to the East of the Whitton to Redmarshall Road
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Land to the East of the Whitton to Redmarshall Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedgefield, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1985, covering about 9.1 hectares. Reference EAHLD05548, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05548 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Land to the East of the Whitton to Redmarshall Road |
| Address | North of Whitton Beck |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cleveland County Council |
| Licence issued | 29 March 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1985 |
| First waste input | 29 March 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1985 |
| Area | 9.1 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 438400, 522500 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Land to the West of the Whitton to Redmarshall RoadInert
- QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Refuse Tip of Durham RoadfHouseholdCommercial
- Stillington TipWaste types not recorded
- Stillington TipIndustrialInert
- Stillington Industrial EstateInert
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.