Landfill Check

Land to the West of the Guisborough to Dunsdale Road B1269

IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Land to the West of the Guisborough to Dunsdale Road B1269 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1948 and 1981, covering about 24.21 hectares. Reference EAHLD05571, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05571
Site nameLand to the West of the Guisborough to Dunsdale Road B1269
AddressDunsdale, Guisborough, Cleveland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCleveland County Council
Licence issued25 February 1977
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1948
Last waste input31 December 1981
Area24.21 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference460300, 517900

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.
Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
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.