Landfill Check

Booths Lane Landfill Site

IndustrialInert

Booths Lane Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Aldridge. It received industrial and inert waste between 1948 and 1993, covering about 1.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD23116, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23116
Site nameBooths Lane Landfill Site
AddressBooths Lane, Great Barr, Birmingham, West Midlands
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderBirmingham City Council
Licence issued22 October 1979
Licence surrendered20 July 1984
First waste input31 December 1948
Last waste input30 April 1993
Area1.46 ha
Gas controlYes
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference406100, 294200

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.