Seaton Meadows Landfill
IndustrialInert
Seaton Meadows Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hartlepool, Hartlepool. It received industrial and inert waste between 1982 and 1989, covering about 7.9 hectares. Reference EAHLD05502, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05502 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Seaton Meadows Landfill |
| Address | Brenda Road, Hartlepool |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Stephenson Civil Engineering Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 23 October 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | 8 January 1991 |
| First waste input | 1 January 1982 |
| Last waste input | 1 June 1989 |
| Area | 7.9 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 452200, 527700 |
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.
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- Graythorp TipIndustrialCommercialInert
- North East of Hartlepool Power StreetIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Flying H Equestrian Centre No.2Inert
- Flying H Equestrian Centre No.1/Flying H Riding SchoolInert
- Leathers Chemical SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
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.