Pattinson South
Inert
Pattinson South is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Washington. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1980, covering about 2.87 hectares. Reference EAHLD06594, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06594 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pattinson South |
| Address | Washington, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Washington Development Corporation |
| Licence issued | 17 December 1975 |
| Licence surrendered | 28 August 1981 |
| First waste input | 18 December 1979 |
| Last waste input | 6 November 1980 |
| Area | 2.87 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 431800, 554800 |
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
- Calders SiteWaste types not recorded
- Calders SiteInert
- Jubilee TipWaste types not recorded
- Biddick LaneInert
- Six HousesHousehold
- Calders SiteInert
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.