Low Mount Farm
Inert
Low Mount Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Washington. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1985, covering about 2.63 hectares. Reference EAHLD06317, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06317 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Low Mount Farm |
| Address | Springwell, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | T Swinburn |
| Licence issued | 28 August 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 May 1985 |
| First waste input | 28 August 1981 |
| Last waste input | 28 May 1985 |
| Area | 2.63 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 428200, 559200 |
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
- Natural Stone Quarries LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Natural Stone Quarries LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Springwell Quarry No.1IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Springwell Quarry No.3Inert
- UplandsWaste types not recorded
- Galloping GreenWaste types not recorded
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.