Clayhanger Landfill Site
IndustrialCommercialInert
Clayhanger Landfill Site is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Brownhills. It received industrial, commercial and inert waste between 1966 and 1986, covering about 32.16 hectares. Reference EAHLD21010, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD21010 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Clayhanger Landfill Site |
| Address | Bridge Street, Brownhills, West Midlands |
| Site operator | Aldridge and Brownhills Urban District Council |
| Licence holder | W3 Midlands County Council |
| Licence issued | 30 June 1981 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1966 |
| Last waste input | 23 February 1986 |
| Area | 32.16 ha |
| Gas control | Yes |
| Leachate containment | Yes |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 404500, 304800 |
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.
- Commercial:
- waste from shops and offices — paper, packaging, food. Similar profile to household waste, usually less of it.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Old Landfill SiteWaste types not recorded
- Old Walsall Wood RailwayHouseholdCommercialInert
- Birch Coppice Mineral Extraction SiteSpecialLiquid / sludgeIndustrialHouseholdCommercialInert
- Effluent Disposal LimitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Shire Oak Sand and Gravel PitInert
- Utopia QuarryWaste 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.