Landfill Check

Skinningrove Gas Works Site

IndustrialInert

Skinningrove Gas Works Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland. It received industrial and inert waste in 1982, covering about 0.48 hectares. Reference EAHLD05552, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05552
Site nameSkinningrove Gas Works Site
AddressSaltburn by the Sea, Cleveland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderLangbaurgh Borough Council
Licence issued12 February 1982
Licence surrendered17 November 1982
First waste input13 February 1982
Last waste input17 November 1982
Area0.48 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference471200, 519400

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.