Landfill Check

Land to the West of the Whitton to Redmarshall Road

Inert

Land to the West of the Whitton to Redmarshall Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sedgefield, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1987, covering about 6.93 hectares. Reference EAHLD05549, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05549
Site nameLand to the West of the Whitton to Redmarshall Road
AddressNear Village of Whitton
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderCleveland County Council
Licence issued26 May 1977
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 May 1977
Last waste input31 December 1987
Area6.93 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference438200, 522400

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

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

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.