Landfill Check

Warrenby

IndustrialInert

Warrenby is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1997, covering about 5.59 hectares. Reference EAHLD05576, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD05576
Site nameWarrenby
AddressLand Adjacent To Redcar Blast Furnace, Redcar, Cleveland
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBritish Steel Plc
Licence issued11 December 1979
Licence surrendered13 April 1997
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste inputNot recorded
Area5.59 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaDales NE
Grid reference456700, 526100

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.
Inert:
builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.