Westway
Inert
Westway is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near South Shields. It received inert waste between 1982 and 1983, covering about 0.75 hectares. Reference EAHLD06270, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06270 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Westway |
| Address | South Shield, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Borough Of South Tyneside |
| Licence issued | 23 February 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1982 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1983 |
| Area | 0.75 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 435800, 565100 |
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
- Olive StreetWaste types not recorded
- Tyne Dock No.3IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tyne DockIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Tyne Dock ExtensionIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Port of Tyne AuthorityWaste types not recorded
- Tyne Dock LandfillInert
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.