Historic landfill sites in Birmingham
The Environment Agency records 25 historic landfill sites in and around Birmingham. covering roughly 111 hectares in total. The largest is Former Adderley Park Brickworks Landfill Site at 23.6 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Birmingham (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former Adderley Park Brickworks Landfill Site | 23.6 ha | 1937 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Monyhall Hospital | 10.91 ha | 1983 | IndustrialInert |
| North Park Road - M6 Motorway | 9.9 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Ackers Trust Site | 6.67 ha | 1976 | Waste types not recorded |
| Land R/o Birmingham Battery (Wimpey Tip) | 6.35 ha | 1987 | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Land In The Vicinity Of Tyseley Incinerator | 5.48 ha | — | Industrial |
| Former Brick and Tile Works | 5.46 ha | 1965 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Former Burbury Brickworks Landfill Site | 5.17 ha | 1962 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Newbridge Road / Hob Moor Road | 4.98 ha | 1974 | IndustrialInert |
| Aldridge Road - Brick Kiln Lane Landfill Site | 4.5 ha | 1985 | Industrial |
| Land South Of Booths Lane | 3.69 ha | 1988 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Former Bordesley Brickworks | 3.15 ha | 1970 | Industrial |
| Yardley Wood Road | 3.01 ha | 1973 | Industrial |
| Icknield Street | 2.97 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land Rear of Birmingham Battery | 2.92 ha | 1974 | IndustrialInert |
| Papermill End | 2.81 ha | 1937 | Industrial |
| Kings Road/Listowel Way | 2.55 ha | 1968 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Nechells Substation Landfill Site | 1.63 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
| Lifford Disposal Works | 1.5 ha | — | Industrial |
| Former Kynoch Works | 1.19 ha | 1984 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Middleton Hall Road/Fradley Close | 1.06 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| City Waste Plc's Landfill Site | 0.66 ha | 1995 | Inert |
| The Dell | 0.28 ha | — | Household |
| Kynock Works | 0.2 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Albion Road | 0.05 ha | 1987 | IndustrialInert |
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.
Common questions
- How many former landfill sites are there in Birmingham?
- 25 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Birmingham town centre in the Environment Agency's Historic Landfill dataset (October 2025 revision). Pre-1974 sites are incompletely recorded, so the true historical number is likely higher.
- How do I check a specific address in Birmingham?
- Search the postcode on Landfill Check — you'll see every recorded site within 1km, with distance, direction and waste types, measured to the site boundary.
Nearby areas
Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.