Castle Hills Farm
Inert
Castle Hills Farm is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Solihull. It received inert waste between 1977 and 1978, covering about 5.05 hectares. Reference EAHLD23751, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23751 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Castle Hills Farm |
| Address | Catherine De Barnes Lane, Bickenhill, Solihull, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Bulldog Demolition Limited |
| Licence holder | Bulldog Demolition Limited |
| Licence issued | 17 February 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 30 April 1994 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1977 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1978 |
| Area | 5.05 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 418200, 281700 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Bickenhill LaneInert
- Glebe FarmInert
- Opposite Church FarmIndustrialHouseholdCommercial
- Shadowbrook LaneInert
- Hargrave FarmInert
- Castle Hills Farm (Opposite Hargrave Cottages)Waste 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.