Landfill Check

Portrack Roundabout

IndustrialInert

Portrack Roundabout is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough. It received industrial and inert waste in 1980, covering about 0.42 hectares. Reference EAHLD05623, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05623
Site namePortrack Roundabout
AddressStockton-on-Tees, Cleveland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderImperial Chemical Industries Limited
Licence issued14 March 1980
Licence surrendered11 August 1980
First waste input1 June 1980
Last waste input29 July 1980
Area0.42 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference447000, 520600

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

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.