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Historic landfill sites in Cannock, Staffordshire

The Environment Agency records 68 historic landfill sites in and around Cannock, Staffordshire. covering roughly 491 hectares in total. The largest is Open Cast Site/Poplars at 128.19 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

Recorded landfill boundaries around Cannock (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Open Cast Site/Poplars128.19 ha1974SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
Hednesford Brickworks41.8 ha1976IndustrialHousehold
Wimblebury Road Landfill Site28.67 ha—Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site Off Lichfield Road25.18 ha—Waste types not recorded
Newlands Lane Landfill Site21.17 ha1965Household
Land near Norton Lodge Farm20.79 ha1948Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site Off Rosemary Road18.95 ha1971HouseholdInert
Landfill Site Off East Cannock Road18.47 ha—Waste types not recorded
Biffa - Saredon Hill Quarry16.54 ha—Waste types not recorded
Former RAF Camp/Old RAF Base16.36 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land off Wolverhampton Road13.78 ha1988SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Hole Farm Landfill Site9.4 ha1974Household
Hednesford Quarry9.27 ha—Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site West Of Hednesford Road9.06 ha—Waste types not recorded
A. Adams and Sons/Hospital Lane8.76 ha—SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Belt Road Landfill Site8.15 ha1950Household
Hawks Green Lane Landfill Site6.2 ha1945Household
Off Green Heath Road Landfill Site5.98 ha1971Household
Iron Foundry5.94 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hatherton Reservoir5.64 ha1967IndustrialHousehold
Redhurst Quarry5.4 ha1990SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Wolverhampton Road5.03 ha1984IndustrialCommercialInert
Adjacent To Wimblebury Road, Recreation Ground5.03 ha1942Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site North West Of Great Wyrley4.91 ha1976Inert
Landfill Site off Pye Green Road4.02 ha1950Household
Landfill Site Off Hunter Road3.04 ha1955Waste types not recorded
Laburnum Avenue3.01 ha—Waste types not recorded
Playing Field, Wood Lane2.61 ha1958Household
Hednesford Park2.34 ha1948Household
Landywood Lane2.21 ha1970Household
Landfill Site Off Stratford Way and John Street2.02 ha1955Household
Old Fallow Road Landfill Site1.93 ha1947Household
Disused Canal1.75 ha1989IndustrialCommercialInert
Landfill Site Adjacent To Wyrley Brook Park1.69 ha—Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHousehold
Landfill Off Delta Way, Near to Sewage Disposal Works1.54 ha1976Inert
Land Fronting John Street And Moreton Street1.3 ha1952HouseholdInert
Sports Ground1.23 ha—Household
Landfill Between View Street And Foster Avenue1.23 ha1943Household
Landfill Site Near Sewage Works1.2 ha—Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site Near Campions Wood1.2 ha1976Industrial
Hawkins Colliery1.2 ha1960Household
Landfill Site Off Arthur Street1.19 ha1970Household
Old Hednesford Road1.14 ha1961Household
Landfill To The South East Of High Town, 2 Sites Alongside Railway off Stafford Lane1.14 ha—Waste types not recorded
North West, Wedges Mill1.13 ha1960Household
Rear of Site Number 23, Cannock Road1.11 ha1965Waste types not recorded
South Of Littleworth Road1.08 ha1960Household
Doles Farm Landfill Site1.05 ha1955Household
BCA Hednesford Gravel Pit1.01 ha1984Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
Landfill Site South Of Wolverhampton Road0.95 ha1952Household
Four Crosses Landfill Site0.89 ha1978Industrial
Haig Close Landfill Site0.83 ha—Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site Off Biggott Street0.81 ha1945Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site Off Stafford Lane, Corner of Site No 660.76 ha1952Household
Football Field0.75 ha1976Waste types not recorded
Landfill Site Adjacent To A4600.67 ha—Waste types not recorded
Land Between 241 and 301 Littleworth Road0.6 ha1971Household
Church Road0.57 ha1983IndustrialInert
Landfill Site Off Walsall Road0.53 ha1960Household
South of Sites No 41 and 37, Moreton Street0.44 ha—Household
Pottal Pool Sand And Gravel Pit0.41 ha—Waste types not recorded
Old Red Lion Site0.33 ha1989Industrial
Walkmill Lane0.27 ha1959Household
Hednesford Park Landfill Site, South Side of No 320.26 ha—Household
Land At Junction Of Cannock Road and Stafford Lane0.25 ha—IndustrialInert
Works Off Walsall Road0.2 ha—Household
Watling Street0.17 ha—Household
Off Wolverhampton Road0.14 ha1993IndustrialInert

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 Cannock?
68 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Cannock 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 Cannock?
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.

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Worth reading: buying a house near a former landfill and what the waste types mean.