The Bottoms
Inert
The Bottoms is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hetton-le-Hole. It received inert waste between 1989 and 1991, covering about 4.98 hectares. Reference EAHLD05888, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD05888 |
|---|---|
| Site name | The Bottoms |
| Address | Shadforth Beck, Haswell Plough, County Durham |
| Site operator | Anderson Contractors Limited |
| Licence holder | Mr N B Anderson |
| Licence issued | 23 February 1990 |
| Licence surrendered | 21 May 1993 |
| First waste input | 30 November 1989 |
| Last waste input | 30 November 1991 |
| Area | 4.98 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 436400, 542100 |
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
- Shadforth BeckInert
- The Bottoms No.2Waste types not recorded
- Colliery Farm High HaswellWaste types not recorded
- Harehill FarmInert
- Crime Rigg Quarry LandfillWaste 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.