Sledge Hill Reclaimation Site
IndustrialInert
Sledge Hill Reclaimation Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Chester-le-Street, County Durham. It received industrial and inert waste between 1975 and 1984, covering about 11.31 hectares. Reference EAHLD06553, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06553 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Sledge Hill Reclaimation Site |
| Address | Low Urpeth, Chester-le-Street, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Mr P Johnson |
| Licence issued | 31 May 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 26 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1984 |
| Area | 11.31 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 424900, 555200 |
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
- Sledge Hill FarmInert
- High Urpeth Quarry / Landfill Site / Hargreaves Clearwaste LimitedSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Higher Urpeth Waste Disposal SiteInert
- Kibblesworth QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Kibblesworth VillageWaste types not recorded
- Urpeth Waste Disposal SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.