Landfill Check

Clay Lane Cottages Landfill Site

Waste types not recorded

Clay Lane Cottages Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Solihull. It received waste of unrecorded type until 1978, covering about 0.46 hectares. Reference EAHLD23121, October 2025 data revision.

Full record

EA referenceEAHLD23121
Site nameClay Lane Cottages Landfill Site
AddressClay Lane, Acocks Green, Birmingham, West Midlands
Site operatorRichards and Wallington Industries Limited
Licence holderBirmingham EPU
Licence issuedNot recorded
Licence surrenderedNot recorded
First waste inputNot recorded
Last waste input5 July 1978
Area0.46 ha
Gas controlNot recorded
Leachate containmentNot recorded
Licensed siteNot recorded
EA areaUpper Trent MI
Grid reference412800, 284000

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

Boundary map

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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.