Landfill Check

Blakeley Hall Road

IndustrialInert

Blakeley Hall Road is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Oldbury. It received industrial and inert waste in 1979, covering about 0.53 hectares. Reference EAHLD23719, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23719
Site nameBlakeley Hall Road
AddressBlakeley Hall Road, Oldbury, West Midlands
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderSandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Licence issued8 March 1979
Licence surrendered30 April 1994
First waste input4 June 1979
Last waste input31 October 1979
Area0.53 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference399700, 289500

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

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.