West Allotment
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
West Allotment is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wallsend. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1972 and 1978, covering about 3.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD06083, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06083 |
|---|---|
| Site name | West Allotment |
| Address | The Silverlink North, North Tyneside |
| Site operator | County Borough Of Tynemouth |
| Licence holder | Not recorded |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 March 1972 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 3.53 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 431600, 570100 |
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.
- Household:
- everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
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- Whitley Road NorthWaste types not recorded
- Archer Street NorthWaste types not recorded
- Bluehouse BridgeWaste types not recorded
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.