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Historic landfill sites in Coventry

The Environment Agency records 44 historic landfill sites in and around Coventry. covering roughly 294 hectares in total. The largest is Rock Farm at 29.18 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Rock Farm29.18 ha1991SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Rock Farm Landfill27.22 ha—Industrial
Wyken Croft19.34 ha1987HouseholdInert
Brandon Wood Farm,6635 and 766318.32 ha1972HouseholdInert
Ryton No.2 - Extension17.05 ha1993SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Land South of Brandon Lane15.31 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hall Drive13 ha—Waste types not recorded
Rowley Road12.23 ha1970Liquid / sludgeHousehold
Rock Farm Landfill12.14 ha—Industrial
Ryton on Dunsmore Landfill Site9.34 ha1982Household
Prior Deram Park9.1 ha—HouseholdCommercialInert
Coombe Estate8.51 ha1960Inert
Ryton Wood No.37.97 ha1990Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdInert
Fosseway Sand and Gravel Company Limited, Landfill Site7.68 ha1981Liquid / sludgeInert
Coventry Airport, Baginton7.54 ha1989Liquid / sludgeHouseholdCommercialInert
East of Road7.26 ha1978Waste types not recorded
Brandon Lane7.21 ha1989IndustrialCommercialInert
Coombe Fields6.75 ha1981IndustrialCommercial
A428 Borrow Pit5.95 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pools Field5.29 ha1992IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
A428 Borrow Pit4.92 ha1989Inert
F Clements Landfill Site4.56 ha1980Inert
Borrow Pit4.39 ha1974Household
Bladberry Lane Tip4.37 ha1979Waste types not recorded
Streetley-Brandon Lane Concrete Works3.92 ha1992Inert
Webster Hemmings Brickworks Landfill3.62 ha2001Inert
Harpers Lodge Landfill Site2.58 ha1977Inert
Home Farm2.28 ha1983Inert
Wolston, Tipping Resource Landfill Site2.13 ha1990IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Midland Brickworks2.12 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Webster's2.11 ha1973HouseholdCommercial
Blue Circle Aggregates, Ryton1.99 ha1979IndustrialInert
Railway Sidings1.64 ha1990Inert
Webster Hemming Brickworks1.53 ha1993Inert
London Road B1.33 ha1932Waste types not recorded
Ryton Wood No.21.01 ha1993Industrial
Holyhead Road0.83 ha—Waste types not recorded
Fletchampstead Highway0.57 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hearsall Common0.53 ha—Waste types not recorded
Brandon Lane Tip0.43 ha—Waste types not recorded
Kelmscote Road0.4 ha—Waste types not recorded
Binley Road A0.38 ha—Waste types not recorded
The Moor Poultry Farm - Corley Poultry Farm0.29 ha1983Inert
Coundon Social Club0.12 ha—Waste 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.

Common questions

How many former landfill sites are there in Coventry?
44 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Coventry 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 Coventry?
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.