Springwell Quarry No.3
Inert
Springwell Quarry No.3 is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Washington. It received inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 17.97 hectares. Reference EAHLD06634, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06634 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Springwell Quarry No.3 |
| Address | Springwell, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Tarmac Quarry Products Limited |
| Licence issued | 11 February 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 19 May 1989 |
| First waste input | 12 February 1988 |
| Last waste input | 19 May 1989 |
| Area | 17.97 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 428200, 558500 |
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
- Springwell Quarry No.1IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Natural Stone Quarries LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Natural Stone Quarries LimitedWaste types not recorded
- Red BungalowsWaste types not recorded
- Galloping GreenWaste types not recorded
- Seldom SeenWaste types not recorded
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.