Part of Carlisle Racecourse
Inert
Part of Carlisle Racecourse is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Carlisle, Cumberland. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1985, covering about 0.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD07820, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07820 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Part of Carlisle Racecourse |
| Address | Durdar Road, Carlisle, Cumbria |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Michael Thompson Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 April 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 15 November 1985 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1985 |
| Area | 0.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 340400, 552400 |
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
- Blackwell BrickworksHousehold
- St Ninians Road Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Part of Field No.7800CommercialInert
- Durdar FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Gillford ParkInert
- York GardensSpecialIndustrialHousehold
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.