Historic landfill sites in Oldbury
The Environment Agency records 24 historic landfill sites in and around Oldbury. covering roughly 148 hectares in total. The largest is Brades Hall Farm at 32.01 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Oldbury (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brades Hall Farm | 32.01 ha | 1982 | IndustrialInert |
| Brades Hall Farm | 22.38 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Newbury Lane | 12.87 ha | 1983 | IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Park Street Industrial Estate | 11.38 ha | 1994 | IndustrialInert |
| Portway Road | 10.56 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Blakeley Hall School | 9.45 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Accles And Pollock Playing Fields | 5.79 ha | — | Industrial |
| Hambletts Road/Gad's Lane | 4.89 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdInert |
| Phoenix Street Borehole Numbers 1 and 2 | 4.8 ha | 1981 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial |
| Taylors Lane | 4.74 ha | — | IndustrialHousehold |
| Rattlechain Tip | 4.29 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Furnace Yard Landfill Site | 4.03 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Monks Tip | 3.39 ha | 1989 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert |
| Newfield Road Landfill Site | 3.38 ha | — | Industrial |
| New Century Tip | 3.19 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Gower Tip | 3 ha | 1990 | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert |
| Brades Hall Farm | 1.85 ha | 1982 | IndustrialInert |
| Shidas Lane Lagoon | 1.39 ha | — | SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrial |
| Rose Lane Landfill Site | 1.19 ha | 1983 | Industrial |
| New Century Tip | 1.02 ha | 1983 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercialInert |
| The Duport Tip | 0.9 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Monk's Tip | 0.73 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Blakeley Hall Road | 0.53 ha | 1979 | IndustrialInert |
| Albion Road Landfill Site | 0.2 ha | 1991 | Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
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 Oldbury?
- 24 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Oldbury 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 Oldbury?
- 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.