Port Clarence Landfill
IndustrialInert
Port Clarence Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough. It received industrial and inert waste between 1948 and 1983, covering about 5.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD05610, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05610 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Port Clarence Landfill |
| Address | Huntsman Drive, Stockton-on-Tees |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | British Steel Corporation (Chemicals) Limited |
| Licence issued | 28 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 4 February 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1948 |
| Last waste input | 1 February 1983 |
| Area | 5.19 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 452000, 521800 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- BSC Chemical Works Solid Waste TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- TDC Landfill at Port ClarenceLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Fire Bund Port ClarenceIndustrial
- Cargo Fleet Wharf AreaInert
- The Graving DockIndustrialInert
- Cargo Fleet WharfWaste 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.