Bell Lane, Shrewsbury
IndustrialHouseholdCommercial
Bell Lane, Shrewsbury is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It received industrial, household and commercial waste between 1954 and 1956, covering about 0.61 hectares. Reference EAHLD30357, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD30357 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bell Lane, Shrewsbury |
| Address | Bell Lane, Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1954 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1956 |
| Area | 0.61 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 350500, 312400 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Mill Road, Abbey ForegateWaste types not recorded
- Castle Walk, ShrewsburyIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Telford Estate, ShrewsburyHouseholdInert
- Summer Gardens/Former Belle Vue Service StationInert
- End Of Alma Street, ShrewsburyWaste types not recorded
- Corporation Lane, Coton HillWaste 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.