Historic landfill sites in Rugeley, Staffordshire
The Environment Agency records 55 historic landfill sites in and around Rugeley, Staffordshire. covering roughly 386 hectares in total. The largest is Rugeley Ash Storage Lagoons EPR/JP3139SG at 87.05 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.
Recorded landfill boundaries around Rugeley (indicative, digitised at 1:10,000).
All recorded sites, largest first
| Site | Area | Last input | Waste types |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rugeley Ash Storage Lagoons EPR/JP3139SG | 87.05 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rugeley Ash Storage Lagoons EPR/JP3139SG | 87.05 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rugeley Power Station | 48.54 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rugeley Power Station | 36.99 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Brereton Hayes Wood | 33.7 ha | — | CommercialInert |
| Rugeley A and B | 24.21 ha | 1992 | Industrial |
| The Wharf Old Site | 7.32 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rectory Farm | 5.46 ha | 1982 | Industrial |
| Pear Tree Refuse Tip | 4.5 ha | 1960 | Household |
| Coppice Lane Landfill Site | 4.5 ha | 1948 | Household |
| N & H - Colton Hall Farm Landfill Site | 4.05 ha | — | Industrial |
| Barnclose Pit | 3.88 ha | — | SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Colwich Brickworks | 3.55 ha | 1962 | Household |
| Old RAF Base | 3.02 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Landfill Site North Of Rawnsley | 2.7 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Blithbury Bank Farm | 2.25 ha | 1985 | Industrial |
| Gorse Lane Landfill Site | 2.05 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Rugeley Power Station | 1.98 ha | 1982 | Industrial |
| Brereton Wood Landfill Site | 1.83 ha | 1977 | Household |
| Power Station Road | 1.82 ha | — | Household |
| Landfill To The East Of Power Station Road | 1.81 ha | — | Household |
| Former Mineral Railway | 1.48 ha | — | Household |
| North of Colton Hall Farm | 1.46 ha | 1982 | IndustrialInert |
| Woodhouse Farm | 1.28 ha | 1983 | Waste types not recorded |
| Mountford - Tixhall Landfill Site | 1.26 ha | 1995 | Waste types not recorded |
| Armitage Road Landfill Site | 1.13 ha | — | Commercial |
| Refuse Tip off Port Lane | 1.12 ha | 1960 | Household |
| Dunford, Moor's Gorse | 0.97 ha | — | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Hawkesyard Lane | 0.84 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Old Brickyard Site/Brickyard Clay Hole | 0.76 ha | 1960 | Household |
| Landfill Off Coppice Lane | 0.65 ha | 1948 | Waste types not recorded |
| South Colton Hall Farm | 0.64 ha | 1984 | SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert |
| Gilleons Hall Farm | 0.51 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Landfill Near Pipe Ridware | 0.38 ha | 1967 | Household |
| Adjacent To Trent And Mersey Canal | 0.36 ha | 1993 | Liquid / sludgeInert |
| Marl Pit | 0.35 ha | 1986 | IndustrialInert |
| Mill Lane | 0.35 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Red Lion Tip/Red Lion Site | 0.32 ha | 1989 | IndustrialInert |
| Far Coley Farm | 0.31 ha | 1996 | Commercial |
| Bentilee Park | 0.3 ha | 1984 | IndustrialInert |
| Cannock Wood Street Landfill, 2 Site Cannock Wood Road | 0.28 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Landfill Site Adjacent To Cannock Wood Street | 0.25 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Lower Newlands Farm | 0.24 ha | 1989 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Hurst Farm | 0.23 ha | — | IndustrialInert |
| Moreton Farm | 0.23 ha | 1993 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Brereton Hill, Near Park Farm | 0.23 ha | 1960 | Household |
| N & H Transport - Blackflatts Farm | 0.22 ha | — | IndustrialHouseholdCommercial |
| Land Between Heather Close And Sutton Close | 0.21 ha | — | Household |
| Site Of Bus Station | 0.21 ha | — | Inert |
| Far Coley Farm | 0.17 ha | 1990 | IndustrialInert |
| Waterworks Lane | 0.16 ha | 1983 | Industrial |
| Landfill Site Between Love Lane and Power Station Road | 0.15 ha | — | Waste types not recorded |
| Field No 7600, South Of Colton Hall Farm | 0.14 ha | 1993 | IndustrialCommercialInert |
| Old Brickyard Clay Hole | 0.12 ha | — | Industrial |
| Sytch Lane | 0.08 ha | — | Household |
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 Rugeley?
- 55 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Rugeley 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 Rugeley?
- 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.