Landfill Check

Skinningrove Power House

IndustrialInert

Skinningrove Power House is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland. It received industrial and inert waste between 1975 and 1991, covering about 1.14 hectares. Reference EAHLD05560, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05560
Site nameSkinningrove Power House
AddressSaltburn by the Sea, Cleveland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBritish Steel Corporation
Licence issued2 November 1977
Licence surrendered5 March 1991
First waste input31 December 1975
Last waste input5 March 1991
Area1.14 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference470900, 519800

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.