Tyneside Commercial Park
Inert
Tyneside Commercial Park is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Whickham. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1985, covering about 36.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD06224, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06224 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Tyneside Commercial Park |
| Address | Dunston, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Cameron Hall Developments |
| Licence issued | 4 October 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 29 November 1985 |
| First waste input | 5 October 1983 |
| Last waste input | 29 November 1985 |
| Area | 36.61 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 421300, 562500 |
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
- Dunston Power StationIndustrialInert
- West DunstonInert
- Metro CentreInert
- Crowley Hotel - Whickham ThornsWaste types not recorded
- Delta IronworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Metro Centre Phase 4Inert
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.