Landfill Check

Cinetic Sands

Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert

Cinetic Sands is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. It received liquid/sludge, industrial and inert waste between 1961 and 1990, covering about 7.54 hectares. Reference EAHLD28062, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD28062
Site nameCinetic Sands
AddressSandy Lane, Wildmoor, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Site operatorNot recorded
Licence holderJohn Williams Cinetic Sands Limited
Licence issued18 July 1977
Licence surrendered12 September 1990
First waste input31 December 1961
Last waste input12 September 1990
Area7.54 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteYes
EA areaUpper Severn MI
Grid reference395100, 275900

Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.

Boundary map

What these waste types mean

Liquid / sludge:
liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
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.