Historic landfill sites in Brierley Hill
The Environment Agency records 28 historic landfill sites in and around Brierley Hill. covering roughly 119 hectares in total. The largest is Level Street Mill at 27.48 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Brierley Hill (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Level Street Mill | 27.48 ha | 1984 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Fenns Pool | 14.65 ha | 1983 | IndustrialHousehold |
| Wallows Tip | 10.37 ha | 1983 | Industrial |
| Blackbrook Road | 5.68 ha | 1988 | IndustrialInert |
| Dudley Foundry | 5.63 ha | 1982 | Inert |
| Blewitt Street | 4.73 ha | 1981 | Waste types not recorded |
| Woolascote Road | 4.42 ha | — | HouseholdCommercial |
| Blackbrook Valley | 4.34 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Mill Street | 3.99 ha | 1984 | SpecialIndustrialInert |
| Hayes Lane | 3.94 ha | 1973 | Industrial |
| Quarry Road | 3.24 ha | 1980 | IndustrialInert |
| Balds Lane | 3.19 ha | 1973 | Waste types not recorded |
| Bromley Street | 3.15 ha | 1979 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Mole's Foundry | 2.88 ha | 1989 | Inert |
| Judges Tip | 2.8 ha | 1975 | IndustrialInert |
| Rear of Pear Tree Lane | 2.74 ha | 1925 | Industrial |
| Dudley Wood Avenue | 2.18 ha | 1929 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Knowle Hill Road | 1.9 ha | 1990 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Cradley Road | 1.89 ha | 1977 | Industrial |
| British Industrial Plastics limited | 1.73 ha | 1985 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Delph Road | 1.57 ha | 1992 | Industrial |
| Beeches View Avenue | 1.32 ha | 1973 | HouseholdCommercial |
| Springfield Inustrial Estate | 1.08 ha | — | Household |
| Land off Woods Lane and Cradley Road | 1.01 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land off Lodge Forge | 0.96 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Land At Rear Of The Old Bush Inn | 0.94 ha | 1994 | Waste types not recorded |
| Round Oaks Steel Works | 0.9 ha | 1984 | Inert |
| Star Street | 0.14 ha | 1946 | Industrial |
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 Brierley Hill?
- 28 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Brierley Hill 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 Brierley Hill?
- 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.