Tunstall Hope Road
Inert
Tunstall Hope Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Sunderland. It received inert waste between 1987 and 1988, covering about 2.08 hectares. Reference EAHLD06630, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06630 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tunstall Hope Road |
| Address | Tunstall Hope Road, Tunstall, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | A Monk and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 18 November 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | 24 October 1988 |
| Area | 2.08 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 439200, 554000 |
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
- Ryhope TipWaste types not recorded
- SilksworthInert
- HollycarrsideWaste types not recorded
- Barnes Park EastWaste types not recorded
- Shirley BanksWaste types not recorded
- Barnes Park LakeInert
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.