Landfill Check

3 Sites off Cannock Wood Road - New Hayes Road Landfill

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3 Sites off Cannock Wood Road - New Hayes Road Landfill is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Burntwood, Staffordshire. It received industrial and household waste between 1948 and 1957, covering about 4.19 hectares. Reference EAHLD23188, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23188
Site name3 Sites off Cannock Wood Road - New Hayes Road Landfill
AddressCannock Wood Road / New Hayes Road, Prospect Village, Cannock, Staffordshire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderNot recorded
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste input31 December 1948
Last waste input31 December 1957
Area4.19 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference403100, 311900

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Industrial:
factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Household:
everyday domestic refuse. Decomposes and can generate landfill gas for a few decades after closure.

Other historic landfill sites nearby

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.