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Historic landfill sites in Dudley

The Environment Agency records 37 historic landfill sites in and around Dudley. covering roughly 109 hectares in total. The largest is Coneygre Foundry at 11.88 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Coneygre Foundry11.88 ha1993Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Dudley Sports Centre11.52 ha1985IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Bumble Hole9.18 ha1973IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Birmingham Road8.39 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Lister Road7.99 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Black Country Museum6.31 ha1980IndustrialInert
Blowers Green Road5.28 ha1965HouseholdCommercial
Lansdowne Close5.11 ha1981Waste types not recorded
Holly Hall Road4.04 ha1981Industrial
Russells Hall Road3.53 ha—Industrial
Grazebrook Industrial Park3.29 ha1990Inert
Park Lane West3.02 ha1986IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Grazebrook Industrial Park2.89 ha1990Inert
St George's Road2.6 ha—IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
New Garter Foundry2.37 ha1989IndustrialInert
Cedar Road1.92 ha1929HouseholdCommercial
Grazebrook Industrial Park1.84 ha1990IndustrialInert
Wolverton Road1.74 ha1929HouseholdCommercial
Corporation Road1.57 ha1993Inert
Land At St Marks Road1.57 ha1994Inert
Grange Road Park1.51 ha1976IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Thornleigh Trading Estate1.37 ha1971HouseholdCommercialInert
Elwell and Brown1.14 ha—Waste types not recorded
Pear Tree Lane1.13 ha1987IndustrialInert
Churchfield Street1.08 ha1981IndustrialInert
Grazebrooks Tip1.07 ha—Waste types not recorded
Cinderbank1.01 ha1983IndustrialInert
Paradise0.92 ha1929HouseholdCommercial
Barnsley Tip0.91 ha1973Industrial
Constitution Hill0.66 ha1990Inert
Meadow Road0.47 ha1982IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Pear Tree Lane0.46 ha1979Inert
Hulbert's Tip0.44 ha—Industrial
Meadow Road0.4 ha—HouseholdCommercial
St Michael's Grove0.25 ha—Waste types not recorded
Castle Street0.22 ha1981Liquid / sludgeIndustrial
The Bearpit - Dudley Zoo0.17 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 Dudley?
37 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Dudley 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 Dudley?
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.