Landfill Check

Sledge Hill Farm

Inert

Sledge Hill Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chester-le-Street, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1993, covering about 11.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD06554, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06554
Site nameSledge Hill Farm
AddressUrpeth, Birtley, Chester-le Street, Tyne and Wear
Site operatorMr P Johnson
Licence holderMr P Johnson
Licence issued20 June 1989
Licence surrendered29 March 1993
First waste input21 June 1989
Last waste input29 March 1993
Area11.31 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference424900, 555200

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.

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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.