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Historic landfill sites in Stourbridge

The Environment Agency records 28 historic landfill sites in and around Stourbridge. covering roughly 70 hectares in total. The largest is Brettrell Lane at 10.68 ha. Recorded waste ranges up to liquid/sludge waste. Data: October 2025 revision.

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

All recorded sites, largest first

SiteAreaLast inputWaste types
Brettrell Lane10.68 ha1975Waste types not recorded
Apley Road7.69 ha1956HouseholdCommercial
Pedmore Road7.58 ha1973HouseholdCommercial
Naggersfield Tip5.69 ha1977IndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Moor Street4.94 ha1980Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Junction Road4.84 ha1978Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Norton Sand Quarry3.88 ha1993IndustrialInert
Birmingham Street3.43 ha1900HouseholdCommercial
James and Martin Connolly Limited2.05 ha—Waste types not recorded
Highdown Quarry2.03 ha1991Waste types not recorded
Highdown Quarry2.03 ha1992Waste types not recorded
Whittington Quarry2.02 ha—Waste types not recorded
Addison Road1.97 ha1900IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Coney Green1.65 ha1974HouseholdCommercial
Woolaston Road1.62 ha1986IndustrialInert
Collis Street1.51 ha1978IndustrialInert
The Dell1.16 ha1965HouseholdCommercial
Stourbridge Glass Tip0.67 ha1974Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
Woolaston Road0.66 ha1983Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Woolaston Road0.63 ha—Waste types not recorded
Hawbush Lane0.6 ha1977HouseholdInert
Brooklands0.52 ha—HouseholdCommercial
Baylie Court0.45 ha1980Inert
Collis Street0.37 ha1990IndustrialInert
Junction Road0.32 ha1976Liquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
Barnett Hill0.2 ha1979IndustrialCommercialInert
Woodrow Lane0.19 ha—Waste types not recorded
Mamble Road0.1 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 Stourbridge?
28 historic (closed) landfill sites are recorded within about 15km of Stourbridge 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 Stourbridge?
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.