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Historic landfill sites in Stafford, Staffordshire

The Environment Agency records 54 historic landfill sites in and around Stafford, Staffordshire. covering roughly 96 hectares in total. The largest is East Of Common Road at 9.92 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to special (hazardous) waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
East Of Common Road9.92 ha1970HouseholdInert
Messrs H. Nickolls and Son7.75 ha—Waste types not recorded
Adjacent Haywoods Yard, Rear Of Doxey Road5.44 ha—Inert
Grey Friars Tip4.78 ha1959Household
Lower Hanyards Farm3.83 ha1996Waste types not recorded
Brancote Sewage Works3.82 ha—Industrial
Disused Railway Cutting3.57 ha—Household
Hazelstrine Brickworks3.45 ha—SpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Burley Fields3.33 ha—Household
Universal Grinding Wheel Tip3.32 ha1988Industrial
Former British Reinforced Concrete Works3.13 ha1990IndustrialInert
Retail Park North Of BRC Factory2.91 ha1975Industrial
Universal Ceramic Materials Limited2.73 ha1994Liquid / sludgeCommercial
Off Doxey Road2.72 ha1991Waste types not recorded
Rear Off Evode, Common Road2.57 ha—Waste types not recorded
Beaconside Farm2.35 ha—Waste types not recorded
Silkmore Lane2.2 ha—IndustrialInert
Fairway Industrial Estate2.19 ha—IndustrialInert
Station Road2.15 ha—Household
GEC Diesels1.95 ha—Inert
Within Lane and Weston Road Junction1.91 ha1978IndustrialInert
North Walls Car Park1.63 ha1971Inert
Rugby Pitch Off Newport Road1.59 ha—Inert
Weston Bank/Weston Quarry1.56 ha1978IndustrialHousehold
Old Sewage Works1.49 ha1963HouseholdInert
Lodge Covert1.34 ha—IndustrialInert
Doxey Road1.26 ha—Inert
H. Venables Limited1.24 ha—IndustrialInert
Brocton Quarry1.03 ha1977Industrial
Rooks Nest Farm1.02 ha—IndustrialInert
Heath House Farm0.95 ha1991IndustrialInert
GEC Diesels Limited0.86 ha—Waste types not recorded
Buildings Farm0.76 ha1960Waste types not recorded
Stafford County Showground0.68 ha1989IndustrialInert
Haywards Yard0.39 ha1960Industrial
New Farm0.38 ha1980Industrial
Near Aston Hill Farm0.37 ha—Waste types not recorded
Kents Barn Farm0.37 ha1984IndustrialCommercial
Hopton Farm0.35 ha1968Waste types not recorded
Presford House Farm0.34 ha1986IndustrialCommercial
Kents Barn Farm0.3 ha1985IndustrialInert
Dale Lane0.26 ha1991IndustrialHouseholdInert
Grey Friars Refuse Tip/Snows Yard0.25 ha1991IndustrialInert
Doxey Road0.22 ha—IndustrialInert
Tixall Heath Farm0.22 ha1958Waste types not recorded
Land Off Tixall Road0.2 ha1993IndustrialInert
Kents Barn Farm No.30.19 ha1987IndustrialCommercialInert
Hays Lane / Bacon View Farm0.15 ha1989IndustrialCommercialInert
Coppenhall Farm0.14 ha1971Waste types not recorded
Dale Lane Tip0.12 ha1960Waste types not recorded
Brookhouse Farm0.1 ha1960IndustrialInert
Hanfords Farm0.1 ha1971Household
Stockingale Lane0.05 ha1971Inert
Oldhall Lane0.02 ha1967HouseholdInert

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 Stafford?
54 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Stafford 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 Stafford?
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.