Timber Beach
IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Timber Beach is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sunderland. It received industrial, household, commercial and inert waste between 1987 and 1988, covering about 6.12 hectares. Reference EAHLD06582, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06582 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Timber Beach |
| Address | Wessington Way, North Hylton, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Sunderland Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 18 November 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 7 December 1988 |
| First waste input | 1 August 1987 |
| Last waste input | 7 December 1988 |
| Area | 6.12 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 436900, 558300 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- 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
- Coles Cranes Limited No.1Inert
- Collins FoundryWaste types not recorded
- Pallion Sports GroundWaste types not recorded
- Southwick YardWaste types not recorded
- Ford Paper Mill Phase IIIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Ford Quarry / Hylton Quarry Reclamation SiteInert
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.