Landfill Check

Part of Field No.1314

IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert

Part of Field No.1314 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Longtown, Cumberland. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1986 and 1992, covering about 1.97 hectares. Reference EAHLD07776, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD07776
Site namePart of Field No.1314
AddressSandy Sike, Longtown, Carlisle, Cumbria
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderT R Plant Limited
Licence issued31 January 1977
Licence surrendered4 November 1992
First waste input9 June 1986
Last waste input31 October 1992
Area1.97 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthern NW
Grid reference337800, 565900

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

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.