Birch Farm
IndustrialCommercialInert
Birch Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Stone, Staffordshire. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1988 and 1989, covering about 0.04 hectares. Reference EAHLD29091, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD29091 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Birch Farm |
| Address | Tabs Mini Skips, Birch Farm, Enson Lane, Stafford, Staffordshire |
| Site operator | E F Tabernor |
| Licence holder | Tabs Mini Skips |
| Licence issued | 20 May 1988 |
| Licence surrendered | 16 September 1991 |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | 5 May 1989 |
| Area | 0.04 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 391700, 330000 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Wood FarmIndustrialInert
- New FarmIndustrial
- Elmhurst FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
- Hays Lane / Bacon View FarmIndustrialCommercialInert
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.