Landfill Check

Land to the rear and side of 7 Stapleton Street

IndustrialCommercialInert

Land to the rear and side of 7 Stapleton Street is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1981 and 1984, covering about 0.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD05715, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05715
Site nameLand to the rear and side of 7 Stapleton Street
AddressNorton, Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderW G Kendrew
Licence issued9 October 1981
Licence surrendered15 November 1984
First waste input31 October 1981
Last waste input15 November 1984
Area0.16 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference444100, 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.
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

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.