Royal Quays
Industrial
Royal Quays is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Shields. It received industrial waste between 1991 and 1994, covering about 4.44 hectares. Reference EAHLD06074, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06074 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Royal Quays |
| Address | Royal Quays Development, North Shields, South Of Howdon Road, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tyne and Wear Development Corporation |
| Licence issued | 28 January 1991 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 29 January 1991 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1994 |
| Area | 4.44 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 434600, 566900 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Albert Edward DockWaste types not recorded
- Albert Dock JunctionWaste types not recorded
- Hayhole RoadInert
- Smiths ParkInert
- Hunters Close - Murray CloseHousehold
- St Johns TerraceIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.