Lanehead Waste Disposal Site
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Lanehead Waste Disposal Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanhope, County Durham. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1959 and 1979, covering about 1.82 hectares. Reference EAHLD05891, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05891 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Lanehead Waste Disposal Site |
| Address | Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, County Durham |
| Site operator | Weavdale Rural District Council |
| Licence holder | Durham County Council |
| Licence issued | 26 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 2 July 1980 |
| First waste input | 30 June 1959 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 1.82 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 399000, 540200 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- GreenfootIndustrialInert
- Newfield QuarryIndustrialInert
- Newlandside QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
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.