Windy Nook Hill
Inert
Windy Nook Hill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Gateshead. It received inert waste between 1983 and 1993, covering about 1.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD06216, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD06216 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Windy Nook Hill |
| Address | Whitehills Drive, Felling, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 23 February 1983 |
| Licence surrendered | 31 March 1994 |
| First waste input | 24 February 1983 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1993 |
| Area | 1.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Northumbria NE |
| Grid reference | 427600, 560100 |
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
- High FellWaste types not recorded
- Old Stone QuarryIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Crossfield Industrial Park Windy Nook Industrial ParkInert
- Beacon Lough SchoolHouseholdInert
- Whitehouse LaneWaste types not recorded
- Beacon RiseWaste 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.