Bowling Green Farm
SpecialIndustrialCommercialInert
Bowling Green Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. It received special (hazardous), industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1975 and 1983, covering about 0.62 hectares. Reference EAHLD27965, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD27965 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Bowling Green Farm |
| Address | Grafton Lane, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Hills Plant Bromsgrove Limited |
| Licence issued | 20 July 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 18 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 15 September 1975 |
| Last waste input | 31 October 1983 |
| Area | 0.62 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Severn MI |
| Grid reference | 394300, 269000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- 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
- Hill Top QuarryWaste types not recorded
- Tickeridge Farm Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Sewage Works, Aston RoadIndustrial
- Monsiurs Hall FarmInert
- Garringtons LimitedIndustrial
- Stoke Works LandfillWaste types not recorded
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.