Box Pool Landfill Site
IndustrialInert
Box Pool Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Darlaston. It received industrial and inert waste between 1955 and 1989, covering about 1.43 hectares. Reference EAHLD18252, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD18252 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Box Pool Landfill Site |
| Address | Walsall Road, Darlaston, Walsall, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | F H Lloyd and Company Limited |
| Licence issued | 3 February 1978 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 January 1955 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1989 |
| Area | 1.43 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 398900, 297300 |
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.
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- Wood Green Landfill SiteIndustrial
- James Bridge Copper WorksSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Charles Richard Fasteners Limited's Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
- Anson Branch Of The Walsall CanalIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Bentley Mill Lane Landfill SiteHouseholdCommercial
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.