Penshaw View
Inert
Penshaw View is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stanley, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1980 and 1987, covering about 1.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD05863, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05863 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Penshaw View |
| Address | Tantobie, Stanley, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Hargreaves Clearwaste Limited |
| Licence issued | 25 April 1980 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 January 1988 |
| First waste input | 30 April 1980 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 1.46 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 417900, 554400 |
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
- Tanfield Lee TipWaste types not recorded
- East of Flint HillWaste types not recorded
- Tanfield Lee Tip No.1Waste types not recorded
- Former Tanfield BrickworksWaste types not recorded
- Bowes Hobson Opencast SiteInert
- East Tanfield Sewage TreatmentIndustrial
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.