Redundant Gasholder
IndustrialInert
Redundant Gasholder is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Carlisle, Cumberland. It received industrial and inert waste in 1993, covering about 0.2 hectares. Reference EAHLD07927, October 2025 data revision.
Note: this site's boundary was derived by buffering a point location, not from a surveyed edge — treat the shape as approximate.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD07927 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Redundant Gasholder |
| Address | Rome Street, Carlisle, Cumbria |
| Site operator | British Gas Plc |
| Licence holder | British Gas Plc |
| Licence issued | 23 April 1993 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 October 2000 |
| First waste input | 14 June 1993 |
| Last waste input | 24 June 1993 |
| Area | 0.2 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northern NW |
| Grid reference | 340100, 555000 |
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
- Currock RoadWaste types not recorded
- York GardensSpecialIndustrialHousehold
- Gillford ParkInert
- Blackwell BrickworksHousehold
- Former Carlisle Power StationInert
- Landscaping MoundsInert
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.