Low Newton Disused Railway Jun
Inert
Low Newton Disused Railway Jun is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Durham, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1976 and 1978, covering about 12.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD05879, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05879 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Low Newton Disused Railway Jun |
| Address | Low Newton, Durham, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Clare Construction Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 February 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 12.84 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 428300, 545000 |
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
- Brasside QuarryIndustrialInert
- Brasside TipCommercial
- Union Hall FarmInert
- Belmont Sewage Treatment WorksInert
- DLI Museum South East Area IWaste types not recorded
- Railway Line East Area FWaste 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.