Landfill Check

Bowmans Harbour

IndustrialInert

Bowmans Harbour is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bilston. It received industrial and inert waste between 1994 and 1996, covering about 13.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD24175, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD24175
Site nameBowmans Harbour
AddressBowmans Harbour, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Site operatorC N T West Midlands
Licence holderBlack Country Development Corporation
Licence issued31 March 1993
Licence surrendered19 October 2001
First waste input31 January 1994
Last waste input30 April 1996
Area13.33 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentYes
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference393700, 299700

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.