Warden Law
Inert
Warden Law is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Hetton-le-Hole. It received inert waste between 1986 and 1987, covering about 21.38 hectares. Reference EAHLD06638, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06638 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Warden Law |
| Address | Warden Law, Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Stretchpower Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 June 1986 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 20 June 1986 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Area | 21.38 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 436900, 550400 |
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
- Warden Law QuarryInert
- Hetton Downs South BWaste types not recorded
- Eppleton QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Hetton Downs NorthIndustrialCommercial
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.