Black Lake Goods Yard
IndustrialCommercialInert
Black Lake Goods Yard is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near West Bromwich. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1987 and 1994, covering about 3.32 hectares. Reference EAHLD23677, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23677 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Black Lake Goods Yard |
| Address | Former Black Lake Railway Siding, Black Lake, West Bromwich, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence holder | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 17 March 1987 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1987 |
| Last waste input | 30 April 1994 |
| Area | 3.32 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 399300, 292600 |
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
- Walsall Conduits Dial LaneIndustrialInert
- BlacklakeLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Swan Farm RedevelopmentIndustrialInert
- Former Vowles FoundryWaste types not recorded
- Former Vowles Car Park, Church LaneInert
- Phoenix Street Borehole Numbers 1 and 2Liquid / sludgeIndustrialCommercial
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.