Scotswood Bridge Reclamation
Inert
Scotswood Bridge Reclamation is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whickham. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 2.03 hectares. Reference EAHLD06232, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06232 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Scotswood Bridge Reclamation |
| Address | Land adjacent to Scotswood Bridge, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 25 November 1982 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 December 1983 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1983 |
| Area | 2.03 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 420000, 563500 |
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
- Derwenthaugh RoadWaste types not recorded
- Shibdon Landfill SiteInert
- Shibdon Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Metro Centre Phase 4Inert
- Denton DeneInert
- Metro CentreInert
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.