Acreswood Bank Top
IndustrialInert
Acreswood Bank Top is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stoke-on-Trent, City of Stoke-on-Trent. It received industrial and inert waste between 1979 and 1990, covering about 3.77 hectares. Reference EAHLD24073, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD24073 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Acreswood Bank Top |
| Address | High Lane, Foreswood, Tunstall, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | H and R Johnson Limited |
| Licence issued | 15 March 1979 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 15 March 1979 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1990 |
| Area | 3.77 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 387500, 351400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- AcreswoodHousehold
- Acreswood Landfill SiteHouseholdInert
- Burslem Golf CourseHousehold
- Wilkinson Marl HoleHouseholdCommercial
- Land At Acreswood RoadHouseholdInert
- Land Between High LaneWaste 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.