Springfield Works
Inert
Springfield Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darlington, Darlington. It received inert waste between 1975 and 1981, covering about 21.07 hectares. Reference EAHLD06569, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06569 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Springfield Works |
| Address | Pendleton Road, Darlington, County Durham |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Coles Cranes Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 April 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 20 February 1981 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1975 |
| Last waste input | 9 February 1981 |
| Area | 21.07 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Dales NE |
| Grid reference | 429500, 516400 |
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.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Site of the Former Forge TipWaste types not recorded
- SkernesideIndustrial
- SkermesideWaste types not recorded
- DCC CS Pendleton RoadWaste types not recorded
- DCC CS Pendleton RoadWaste types not recorded
- Dodsworth St, Land North OfIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
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.