Clapgate Lane
IndustrialInert
Clapgate Lane is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Blackheath. It received industrial and inert waste between 1938 and 1981, covering about 1.69 hectares. Reference EAHLD23096, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23096 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Clapgate Lane |
| Address | Clapgate Lane, Woodgate Valley, Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Birmetals Limited |
| Licence holder | Birmetals Limited |
| Licence issued | 2 September 1977 |
| Licence surrendered | 23 November 1983 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1938 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1981 |
| Area | 1.69 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 399800, 282900 |
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
- Hillcrest School Landfill SiteIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Land South of Stonehouse LaneWaste types not recorded
- West Boulevard Landfill SiteInert
- Barnes HillHouseholdInert
- Bames Hill TipWaste types not recorded
- West Boulevard / Selcroft AvenueIndustrialHousehold
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.