Temple Memorial Park
IndustrialCommercialInert
Temple Memorial Park is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Shields. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1969 and 1971, covering about 5.02 hectares. Reference EAHLD31781, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD31781 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Temple Memorial Park |
| Address | King George Road, South Shields, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | South Shields County Borough Cleansing Department |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 August 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 March 1971 |
| Area | 5.02 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 437400, 563300 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Temple Memorial Park No.1IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Temple Park No.2IndustrialCommercialInert
- Temple Park No.3IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Cleadon Park QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Tileshed PiggeryWaste types not recorded
- Tileshed FarmWaste 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.