Landfill Check

Union Hall Farm

Inert

Union Hall Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Durham, County Durham. It received inert waste between 1979 and 1991, covering about 2.01 hectares. Reference EAHLD05877, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05877
Site nameUnion Hall Farm
AddressBrasside, Durham, County Durham
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderA Pearson
Licence issued23 July 1979
Licence surrendered16 December 1993
First waste input23 July 1979
Last waste input31 December 1991
Area2.01 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference429900, 546100

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.

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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.