Landfill Check

Waterville Road

Inert

Waterville Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Shields. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 0.86 hectares. Reference EAHLD06065, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD06065
Site nameWaterville Road
AddressWaterville Road, North Shields, Tyne and Wear
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderKendall Cross Holdings Limited
Licence issued25 November 1982
Licence surrendered27 June 1983
First waste input26 November 1982
Last waste input27 June 1983
Area0.86 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaNorthumbria NE
Grid reference434800, 567800

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.