Landfill Check

Pegswood Colliery

Inert

Pegswood Colliery is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Morpeth, Northumberland. It received inert waste between 1978 and 1980, covering about 1.73 hectares. Reference EAHLD06701, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06701
Site namePegswood Colliery
AddressPegswood Pit Heap, Morpeth, Northumberland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderWilliam Leech Builders Limited
Licence issued18 January 1978
Licence surrendered27 March 1980
First waste input1 January 1978
Last waste input1 June 1980
Area1.73 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference422900, 587800

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.

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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.