Westgate Hill
Inert
Westgate Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Newcastle upon Tyne. It received inert waste between 1981 and 1982, covering about 1.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD06138, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06138 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Westgate Hill |
| Address | Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council |
| Licence issued | 4 December 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | 10 March 1982 |
| First waste input | 4 December 1981 |
| Last waste input | 10 March 1982 |
| Area | 1.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 423200, 564400 |
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
- Town MoorInert
- Buddle Road ReserveWaste types not recorded
- Fenham BrickworksHousehold
- Redheugh GasholderInert
- Delta IronworksIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Dunston Power StationIndustrialInert
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.