Booths Lane Landfill Site
IndustrialHouseholdInert
Booths Lane Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Aldridge. It received industrial, household and inert waste between 1978 and 1979, covering about 0.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD23115, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23115 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Booths Lane Landfill Site |
| Address | Booths Lane, Great Barr, Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | City of Birmingham Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | 21 January 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1979 |
| Area | 0.62 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 405800, 294400 |
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.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Booths Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Queslett Landfill SiteLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Booths Lane Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Booths Farm TipWaste types not recorded
- Land South Of Booths LaneIndustrialHousehold
- Kingsdown Avenue Landfill SiteInert
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.