Pesspool Lane
Inert
Pesspool Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hetton-le-Hole. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1982, covering about 1.22 hectares. Reference EAHLD05883, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05883 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Pesspool Lane |
| Address | Pesspool Lane,Haswell, Durham, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | D Mercer |
| Licence issued | 26 February 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Area | 1.22 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 438500, 543400 |
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
- Area D Tuthill QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Sandy Carr FarmInert
- Area Y South of Hetton MinerWaste types not recorded
- Area X South of Hetton CentreWaste types not recorded
- Area V Salters LaneWaste types not recorded
- The Bottoms No.2Waste types not recorded
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.