Landfill Check

Newcastle Airport No.2

Inert

Newcastle Airport No.2 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Ponteland, Northumberland. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1995, covering about 2.13 hectares. Reference EAHLD06150, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06150
Site nameNewcastle Airport No.2
AddressWoolsington, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNewcastle International Airport Limited
Licence issued23 February 1983
Licence surrendered31 March 1995
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area2.13 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference419700, 571200

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.